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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 messBetter not come near this fabulous dress". — David Rakoff
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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, avariceOccupy 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
Errorbrought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poison of
existence — Charlotte Bronte
Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
— Thomas A Kempis
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
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
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
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
Every child is conceived either in love or lust, is born in pain, followed by joy or sometimes remorse.
— Jennifer Worth
Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
— Charles Dickens
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
— William Carlos Williams