Remorse Quotes

• True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Regret

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Book, Reading

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

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• Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Soul, Lord

  Song: 2Pac + Outlawz---High Speed

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• ...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

  Charles Darwin

  Regret, Past, Judging

  Charles Darwin (2008). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Robert Jones Burdette

  Peace, Men, Yesterday

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• There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

  Seneca the Elder

  Philosophical, Punishment, Persons

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• Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

  David D. Burns

  Guilt, Helping, Should

  Source: time.com

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• One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Ocean, Sea

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Echoes, Losing, Virtue

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• Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Done, Virtue, Repentance

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• Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

  Plutarch

  Pain, Smart, Confusion

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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

  Mean, Yield, Stupidity

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• Remorse weeps tears of blood.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Blood, Tears, Tears Of Blood

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• What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

  Epictetus

  Learning, Forgotten, Pleasure

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• Remorse begets reform.

  William Cowper

  Reform, Begets

  William Cowper (1819). “Poems, etc”, p.331

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• A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

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• On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Guilt, Rolling

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Living in regret will become your biggest regret.

  Bill Johnson

  Regret

  Bill Johnson (2014). “Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth”, p.137, Chosen Books

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• Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

  William C. Bryant

  Roots, Fruit, Innocence

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  William Blake

  Future, Desperate, Rage

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.343, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Adversity, Sleep

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1856). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau”, p.110

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• Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Suffering, Rivals

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• Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fear, Done, May

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• 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

  Memories, Stupid, World

  Gilbert Parker (1798). “Mrs. Falchion”, p.206

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