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Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.”

Shame Misery Terror Endless Architect Wickedness Remorse Diligent

Author:Plutarch

“There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.”

Men Soul Guilt Guilty Wicked Carrie Remorse

Author:John Tillotson

“There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die.”

Mind Heart Kind Feelings Spirit Lying Dies Down And Longing Bitter Sickness Anguish Heart And Mind Remorse Fatigue Weariness Prostration

Book:Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

Source: Charlotte's Inheritance: A Novel

“Remorse is memory awake.”

Memories Awake Remorse

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”

Ends Sin Powerful Repentance Remorse Impotence

Book:Seraphita: Works of Balzac

Source: Seraphita: Works of Balzac

“Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.”

Feels Body Individual Gratitude Shame Punishment Corporate Remorse Disgrace Mischief Goodwill Amenable

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.”

People Feels Mean Sometimes Done Action Wish Natural Moral Principles Virtue Trouble Havens Prove Shame Like Me Wicked Frank Virtuous Remorse Particles Humbug Owning It

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.”

Christianity Curiosity Meals Remorse Erotic Dessert Spoiled Appetizers

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.”

Reality Running Form Pleasure Wind Lovers Weather Flats Melancholy Sail Venture Remorse Keel

Author:Cyril Connolly

“Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?”

World Should Years Firsts Dies Felt Heard Crime This World Summer Bird Years Ago Should Have Warmth Cheer Torn Consolation Remorse

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.”

Social Fit Musical Surrender Poetic Magnificent Remorse Prestige

Author:Laura Riding

“Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.”

Ifs Men World Humans Jesus Names Fantasy Virtue Worship Terror Cruelty Variety Mystical Remorse Jehovah Trinity Human Cruelty Mystical Experiences

Author:Aldous Huxley

“The real affliction of old age is remorse.”

Real Age Old Age Affliction Remorse Growing Old

Author:Cesare Pavese

“Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.”

Force Faults Thee Labour Delay Repent Remorse Snail

Author:Robert Southwell

“Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others extend their Scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves; yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls when they are bought in the Market.”

People Care Alive Taste Creatures Refuse Feds Remorse Beef Scruples Fowl Poultry Mutton

Author:Bernard de Mandeville

“The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.”

Kind Judgment Remorse

Book:The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby

Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby

“When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?”

Men Mind Wells Reason Effort Fashion Despair Died Suicide Burden Rage Instance Nevertheless Remorse Madmen Composure Discreet

Book:ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

Source: ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL

“As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her.”

Hands Pleasure Ready Fairs Lust Bitterness Sugar Remorse Pills Lustful

Author:Daniel Cawdry

“It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only feeling that makes sense. That's what I need to tell you. To let you know how hard I'm trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. When I look at my day, I realize most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I have no future. All I have is distraction and remorse.”

“As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.”

Giving Heart May Helping Light Age Lasts Force Forever Virtue Magic Stage Youth Ready Flower Ties Fades Remorse Parting Endeavour Guarding

Author:Hermann Hesse

“You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.”

Book Language Chance Prove Chosen Obsessed Right Thing Repent Remorse Wrong Things

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“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.]”

Sleep Periods Wake Up Adversity Remorse Prosperous

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.”

Firsts Blood Produce Disease Revenge Remedy Remorse Fever Malady Relapse

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“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.”

Long Matter Moments Sacrifice Objects Present Moment Remorse Impatience Intervals

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.”

May Sometimes Pleasure Sorrow Remorse Avenues Bashfulness

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes

“Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.”

Made Pleasure Prove Deny Rage Breasts Eggs Remorse Nests Bosoms Beam Scorpions

Book:The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

Source: The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham

“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.”

Men Pain Fighting Attention Too Much Conditions Circumstances Conscience Wounds Remorse Vigor Old Wounds

Book:Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

Source: Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of

“Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.”

May Regret Selfish Remorse

Author:Margaret Deland

“That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.”

Years Littles Made Together Pieces Design Conscience Patterns Scar Remorse Tissues Distinctive Scar Tissue

Book:Do Evil in Return

Source: Do Evil in Return

“My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.”

Feelings Regret Complexes Remorse

Author:Natalia Ginzburg

“Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse.”

Causes Christ Pleasure Tears Heartache Anguish Remorse