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“It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.”

Able Difficult Sin Cases Sorrow Resolve Affected Remorse

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“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

“It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.”

Remember Jesus Names Prayer Sin Morning Sorrow Affection Evening Disciple Anguish Remorse Bereavement Parting Sanctity Evening Prayer

Book:A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons

Source: A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons

“My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.'”

People Should Said Book Quality Sorrow Ambition Embrace Weather Former Ecstasy Remorse Good Book My Ambition

Author:Pete Hamill

“Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.”

Heart Pain Sorrow Consequence Concerned Caught Repentance Remorse

Book:The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart

Source: The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”

Giving Ideas Today Beautiful Names Known Strange Regret Sorrow Sad Graves Boredom Ashamed Melancholy Remorse Egoism

Book:BONOUR TRISTESSE

Source: BONOUR TRISTESSE

“I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.”

Way Heart Long Ends Dies Grief My Heart Sorrow Forgiving Sorry Bounds Leaving Trapped Remorse Leaving Me I Am Sorry Am Sorry I Forgive You

Book:The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet

Source: The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet

“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.”

Ifs Men Humans Would Be Life Is Joy Humanity Sorrow Temptation Human Life Heartache Remorse Kinder

Book:In Our Town

Source: In Our Town

“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