Quotes
Quotes about Remorse
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost.
Evil, be thou my good.
We hear the wail of the remorseful winds
In their strange penance. And this wretched orb
Knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world,
Homeless and sobbing through the deep she goes.
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that.
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Cruel Remorse! where Youth and Pleasure sport, And thoughtless Folly keeps her court,-- Crouching 'midst rosy bowers thou lurk'st unseen Slumbering the festal hours away, While Youth disports in that enchanting scene; Till on some fated day Thou with a tiger-spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay.
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.]
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!
If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that.
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
Remorse is the pain of sin.
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.
