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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.
Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.
The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.
It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.
I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
The nation wept tears of remorse for their leader: the tear-gas accomplished what was expected.
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
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.
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.
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.
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.
I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.
I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.
Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course,
So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.
Pride ruined the angels,
Their shame them restores;
And the joy that is sweetest
Lurks in stings of remorse.
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.
Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.
We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.
I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been for me.
Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.
The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
I should have got a better deal in my career, but everything has its time. You can't rush things, feel remorse or regret.
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.
...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.
I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.
I'll do anything to stop my son running out into the street. I'll take a bullet for him. He's hit me a few times. He shows no remorse afterward.
I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?
I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
Remorse is cureless--the Disease
Not even God--can heal--
For 'tis His institution--and
The Adequate of Hell
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.
Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.
A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.
Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.
