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Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course,
So live today so it will be a memory without remorse. — Edgar Cayce

Conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse. — Charles Darwin

Remorse is the pain of sin. — Theodore Parker

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea. — William Hazlitt

She idly wonders which is crueler, man or nature. She determines it must be man. Nature has no remorse, but neither does it have malice. — Neal Shusterman

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse. — P.G. Wodehouse

With no small remorse, she thought, "He and his mess
Better not come near this fabulous dress". — David Rakoff

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. — Jean Racine

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. — Gilbert Parker

They needed someone to hate, a tangible focus for their remorse and disappointment, and I'd been elected, the projection of their own inner hell. — Donald O'Donovan

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse. — Tom Peters

Remorse weeps tears of blood. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The universe does not work in phrases; don't focus on the commas; just wait for the full stop. — Jude Idada

There is no freedom from the evil of your own heart.'
'There is no freedom in helpless self-pity and remorse. — Michael Grant

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty. — Lyn Nofziger

Who can wish for happiness that is bought at the price of reason, whose fleeting pleasures are at least followed by regret, if not remorse? — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Remorse is cureless
the Disease
Not even God
can heal
For 'tis His institution
and
The Adequate of Hell — Emily Dickinson

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse ... — Margaret Deland

If buyer's remorse ever accomplished anything in this world," Max said, "we'd all still be living in caves. — Donald E. Westlake

Dying, dying, Lolita Haze,
Of hate and remorse I'm dying.
And again my hairy fist I raise,
And again I hear you crying. — Vladimir Nabokov

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. — Gregory Maguire

Ingratitude is poison to the soul remorse is part of the diagnosis. — Vasilios Karpos

I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I think there are lovely sunsets in hell - and that's where my desire for you is sending me — John Geddes

We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. — Helen Prejean

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse. — Jules Amedee Barbey D'Aurevilly

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. — Honore De Balzac

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess — H.G.Wells

Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button. — Andy Andrews

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. — William Carlos Williams

Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse, — Neal Shusterman

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse. — Arthur Miller

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me. — William Shakespeare

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!
The sting of conscience is indecent. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. — Anita Loos

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse ... we should strive to keep worry from our life. — Baruch Spinoza

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life. — Miep Gies

The cold breeze and the cold of Richard's Camel were mixing like joy and remorse. — Jonathan Franzen

In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. — William Butler Yeats

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war. — Audie Murphy

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind. — Ogden Nash

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. — Jean Rostand

Folly, error, sin, avarice
Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,
And we feed our pleasant remorse
As beggars nourish their vermin. — Charles Baudelaire

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The nation wept tears of remorse for their leader: the tear-gas accomplished what was expected. — Minimaks

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings. — Natalia Ginzburg

Error
brought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poison of
existence — Charlotte Bronte

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate. — William Shakespeare

A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse. — Ken Buck

There are not many options for the evening that follows an afternoon of drinking. Only two in fact: remorse, or more drinking and then remorse. — Ian McEwan

It referred to intense mental suffering, deep remorse, extreme anguish, acute sorrow and the like. — Don DeLillo

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we've done with it. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation. — Matt Haig

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not. — Federico Chini

Usurious rates of return are deceitful sirens that sing but to lure the unwary upon the rocks of loss and remorse. — George S. Clason

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

If only marriage licenses came with a buyer's remorse clause.
~Detective Mike Malone — D.B. Woodling

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell. — Anne Rice

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it. — Thomas A Kempis

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts. — Don Henley

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse. — Epictetus

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." — Timothy Keller

Truly there are different kinds of pain. But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Of all means to regeneration, Remorse is surely the most wasteful. — E. M. Forster

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. — Karl Kraus

Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest.-Lo-The Wild Hunt — Ashley Jeffery

Never apologize, mister, it's a sign of weakness. — John Wayne

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. — Honore De Balzac

Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse. — John R. Rice

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed? — Yukio Mishima

She who follows another's course, finds a sure path to her own remorse. — John Kramer

His lack of remorse and boundaries should have been a red flag to me, but it sort of made me want to see how far I would let myself go with him. — Monica Alexander

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. — Samuel Johnson

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. — William C. Bryant

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. — Kevin Costner

Guilt is the greatest monster. Remorse, a killer. But the worst are the memories. Yet sometimes, they are the only things that keep our people alive. — Melina Marchetta

The passion fades, the remorse is eternal. — Lin Yutang

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. — Victor Hugo

Remorse," she said, with great gusto. "Remorse? — Agatha Christie

Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream. — Francesco Petrarca

I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse. — Jean-Paul Sartre

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror. — Mark Twain

Remorse-Regret that one waited so long to do it. — H.L. Mencken

In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly

I don't look back on my life with a single moment of regret or remorse for things I didn't do, should have done or might have done differently. — Dave Liniger

Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse. — Jennifer Worth

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal. — Evan Osnos

Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse. — Umar

Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse. — Jon Ronson

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her. — Charles Dickens

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint. — Martin Mull

In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act. — Graham Greene

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. — William Carlos Williams