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“Remorse turns us against ourselves.”

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“Remorse weeps tears of blood.”

Blood Tears Remorse Tears Of Blood

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Heart Sin Misfortunes Remorse

Author:James Ellis

“There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.”

Persons Subjects Philosophical Punishment Remorse Whips

Author:Seneca the Elder

“If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.”

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Book:In Our Town

Source: In Our Town

“Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse all our friends, belch out our literary preferences and are egged on by accomplices in the audience to acts of mental exhibitionism. Such evenings cannot fail to diminish those who take part in them. They end on Monkey Hill.”

“And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this earth on which she was placed, in the vanity of sorrow which had become a master mania, like the vanity of penitence, the vanity of remorse, the vanity of unworthiness, and other monstrous vanities that have been curses in this world?”

Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

“Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it”

Men Crime He Man Committed Remorse

Author:Juvenal

“Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.”

Pain Sin Inspiring Remorse Avoidance Lighters

Author:Umar

“You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.”

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Book:The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad

Source: The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad

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

Men Chess Curse Remorse

Author:H. G. Wells

“There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess”

Book:Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)

“Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.”

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Author:Cyril Connolly

“Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.”

Blood Crime Tears Blow Remorse Death Penalty Redeemed

Author:Victor Hugo

“I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. I am cognizant of what I have done, and any of us could maybe draw the line better. But I've tried to live pretty fearlessly.”

Remorse Sellers

Author:Kevin Costner

“Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”

Feels Pity Remorse Terminator 2

Author:Michael Biehn

“And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!”

Remorse Terminator 2

Author:Michael Biehn

“Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.”

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Author:Arthur Mitchell

“Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse”

Feels Pain Break Ready Pity Steel Remorse No Pain

Author:Joe Abercrombie

“To some people, bankers - code word for Jewish - and guess who Obama's assaulting? He's assaulting bankers. He's assaulting money people. And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there's starting to be some buyer's remorse there.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.”

Facts Feelings Today Past Opportunity Can Do Design Regret Accepted Bitterness Remorse Better Future

Author:Jim Rohn

“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”

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Author:Ronald Speirs

“The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.”

Humans Doe Voice Solitude Surface Infinity Remorse Whispering

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.”

Has Beens Said Poor Fellows Sincere Sympathy Congratulations Remorse

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.”

Pleasure Regret Eggs Remorse I Regret

Author:William Cowper

“Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a Divine warning against the suicide of altering the Faith, in Her liturgy, Her theology and Her soulI hear all around me innovators who wish to dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the true Faith of the Church, reject Her ornaments and make Her feel remorse for Her historical past.”

“When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.”

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Author:Monica Lewinsky

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

Heart Evil Sin Conscience Increase Edges Remorse Inclination

Author:J. C. Ryle

“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?”

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Author:Richard Russo

“You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators.”

“Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.”

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Author:Carl Rogers

“Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.”

Humans Animal Race Cry Shadow Billions Human Race Vegetarian Vegan Vengeance Remorse

Author:Romain Rolland

“Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?”

Facts Sin Remorse

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected? If you are suffering from feelings of guilt or remorse, bitterness or anger, or loss of faith, I invite you to seek relief. Repent and forsake your sins. Then, in prayer, ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.”

“I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.”

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Author:Tahereh Mafi

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

Believe Shows Guilty Remorse

Author:Lyn Nofziger

“Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime”

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Author:Edwin Louis Cole

“Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.”

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Book:Lodore

Source: Lodore

“I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.”

Book:The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell

Source: The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell

“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.”

Feelings Pain Suffering Saws Sorrow Scene South Including Various Torture Japan Museums Display Remorse Korean Heartfelt Pain And Suffering

Author:Junichiro Koizumi

“Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.”

Feelings Heaven Hell Remorse

Author:Charles Lamb

“Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.”

Source: Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us

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

Thinking Ought Conscience Remorse Biting

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

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

Men Perspective One Man Remorse Another Man

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.”

Mind Violent Remorse

Book:The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

Source: The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash

“What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.”

Pleasure Learning Forgotten Remorse

Author:Epictetus

“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.”

Feels Firsts War Blood Pride Indifference Civil War Shed Weary Remorse Follow Me Qualms Qualms About First Blood

Author:Audie Murphy

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

Nations Leader Tears Expected Accomplished Gas Remorse

Author:Minimaks

“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.”

Should Reason Worry Our Lives Conscience And Love Strive Anticipation Remorse Reason And Love

Author:Baruch Spinoza