Remorse Quotes
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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
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To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
William Hazlitt
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The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
Seneca the Younger
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As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her.
Daniel Cawdry -
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
Winifred Holtby
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Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
Charlotte Bronte
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
William Hazlitt
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I think perhaps Mr. Hoadley is experiencing remorse for his failure to become involved.
Bruce Bartlett
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Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
Miep Gies
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William Cowper
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Remorse is the poison of life.
Charlotte Bronte
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For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
Victor Hugo
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Remorse turns us against ourselves.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Power of responsibility was nil at these times. There was fear afterwards, with a massive and suppressed remorse.
Brian Masters
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Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.
Rene Char
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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
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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.
William Butler Yeats
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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
William Cullen Bryant
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
Cesare Pavese
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The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
William Shakespeare
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They come to be? Why don’t they feel any remorse for the suffering they cause? And are there better ways of spotting and stopping them? After having been.
Brenda Novak