Remorse Quotes

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

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

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

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.

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

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.

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

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.

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

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

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

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

Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

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

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.