Remorse Quotes
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. - Joseph Joubert
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain. The former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse . - Chilo
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she's thought much worse things about you. - Jean Rostand
Total self-esteem requires total and unconditional acceptance of yourself. You are a unique and worthy individual, regardless of your mistakes, defeats and failures, despite what others may think, say or feel about you or your behavior. If you truly accept and love yourself, you won't have a driving need for attention and approval. Self-esteem is a genuine love of self. Stop all adverse value judging of yourself. Stop accepting the adverse value judgments of others. Purge yourself of all condemnation, shame, blame, guilt & remorse. - Unknown
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.- George Moore
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. - Mary Bertone
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Remorse is the pain of sin. - Theodore Parker
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. - William C. Bryant
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman. - George Bernard Shaw
The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. - William Shakespeare
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. - Jean Rostand
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. - Anita Loos
Brandy: A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified satan. Dose, a headful all the time. (The Devil's Dictionary) - Ambrose Bierce
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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! - Sir Walter Scott
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. - William Shakespeare
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.-Ambrose Bierce
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.-Karl Kraus
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.-Malcolm Lowry
I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.-Lyn Nofziger
I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.-Abu Abbas
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?-Richard Russo
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.-Ogden Nash
I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.-Thomas Kempis
It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.-Martin Mull
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.-Jean Rostand
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.-Jean Racine
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.-Ogden Nash
Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?-Charles Manson
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.-Ogden Nash
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.-Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Remorse is the pain of sin.-Theodore Parker
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.-William C. Bryant
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.-Jean Jacques Rousseau
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.-William Cowper
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.-George A. Moore
Repentance is accepted remorse.-Anne Sophie Swetchine
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.-Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.-Anita Loos
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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.-Monica Lewinsky
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?-Ivan Turgenev