Remorse Quotes - Page 10

• Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

  Margaret Deland

  Regret, Selfish, May

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• The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Mind, Vivid, Awakening

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• 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.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Running, Son, Bullets

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• It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.

  James Martineau

  Jesus, Morning, Prayer

  James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

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• I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Taken, Typical, Deeds

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• Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

  Max Anders

  Pain, Regret, Essence

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• Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Pain, Heart, Sorrow

  Charles R. Swindoll (1998). “The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart”, p.319, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?

  Mary Cantwell

  Strong, Hangover, Dark

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• I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

  Jean Racine

  Hate, Passion, Guilt

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• There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

  Joseph Conrad

  Desire, Enough Time, Our Love

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• Remorse is cureless--the Disease
  Not even God--can heal--
  For 'tis His institution--and
  The Adequate of Hell

  Emily Dickinson

  Adequate, Disease, Hell

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.735, Harvard University Press

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• Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Action, Cowardly, Conscience

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• Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

  Jeremy Collier

  Pain, Fighting, Men

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.106

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• Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best when soonest wrought,Linger'd labours come to nought.

  Robert Southwell

  Delay, Faults, Force

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• Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

  Karl Kraus

  Erotic, Curiosity, Meals

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  William Hazlitt

  Gratitude, Punishment, Body

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1292, Delphi Classics

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• I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other." He's right. We did. The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Eye, Arrows

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• Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.

  Kim Harrison

  Sharks, People, Would Be

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• They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  William Hazlitt

  Gratitude, Business, Corporations

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• Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

  James de la Vega

  Business, Thinking, Eels

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• In short, the foundation of the Kingdom of God is based upon harmony and love, oneness, relationship and union, not upon differences, especially between husband and wife. If one of these two become the cause of divorce, that one will 392 unquestionably fall into great difficulties, will become the victim of formidable calamities and experience deep remorse.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Husband, Fall, Divorce

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• The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more of our Father's children. We know that every spirit assigned to this earth will come, whether through us or someone else. There are couples in the Church who think they are getting along just fine with their limited families but who will someday suffer the pains of remorse when they meet the spirits that might have been part of their posterity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Couple, Pain

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

  J. I. Packer

  Repentance, Moaning, Knows

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• What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Jobs, Laughter, Pain

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• Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

  Cyril Connolly

  Running, Reality, Wind

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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