Remorse Quotes
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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.
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.
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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
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I think perhaps Mr. Hoadley is experiencing remorse for his failure to become involved.
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Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
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She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
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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.
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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.
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The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
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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
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
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Power of responsibility was nil at these times. There was fear afterwards, with a massive and suppressed remorse.
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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.
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Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.
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Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
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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?
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It's too late for remorse, but the old ones always regret for something
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From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?
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The real affliction of old age is remorse.
