Remorse Quotes

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

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

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

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

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

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.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

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?

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

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

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

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

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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.

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

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.

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

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.