Quotes and Sayings about Remorse
"I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses."
- Jack Abramoff
(Related: Hope, Will)
"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
(Related: Age, Life, Folly, Remorse, Sin, Youth)
"Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness."
- William C. Bryant
(Related: Virtue, Innocence, Remorse)
"Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
(Related: Virtue, Echo, Remorse)
"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid."
- William Cowper
(Related: Pleasure, Remorse)
"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."
- Thomas Kempis
(Related: Remorse)
"Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow."
- Karl Kraus
(Related: Morality, Christian, Lust, Remorse)
"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
(Related: Thought, Now, Remorse)
"Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse."
- Anita Loos
(Related: Business, Remorse, Therapy)
"Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third."
- Malcolm Lowry
(Related: God, Civilization, Remorse)
"Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?"
- Charles Manson
(Related: People, Remorse, Right, World)
"Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell."
- George A. Moore
(Related: Feeling, Heaven, Hell)
"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
(Related: Time, Day, Job, Remorse)
"One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Man, Remorse)
"Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Mind, Remorse)
"There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: People, Being, Friends)
"I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it."
- Ogden Nash
(Related: Remorse)
"I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty."
- Lyn Nofziger
(Related: Remorse)
"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
(Related: Deeds, Memory, Remorse, Repentance, Spirits, World)
"Remorse is the pain of sin."
- Theodore Parker
(Related: Pain, Remorse, Sin)
"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."
- Harold Pinter
(Related: World)
"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."
- Jean Racine
(Related: Remorse)
"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
(Related: Fear, Consequences, Remorse, Repentance)
"Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you."
- Jean Rostand
(Related: Wife, Thought, Remorse)
"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Adversity, Consciousness, Prosperity, Remorse)
"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
(Related: Horror, Remorse, Thinking)
"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(Related: Remorse)
"Repentance is accepted remorse."
- Anne Sophie Swetchine
(Related: Remorse, Repentance)
"Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?"
- Ivan Turgenev
(Related: Feelings, Strength, Pity, Remorse)