Remorse Quotes - Page 11

• Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Summer, Cheer, Should Have

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• Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

  Laura Riding

  Musical, Poetic, Fit

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• As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth blooms in its day and may not last forever. Since life may summon us at every age, be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavour, be ready bravely and without remorse to find new light that old ties cannot give. In all beginnings dwells a magic force for guarding us and helping us to live.

  Hermann Hesse

  Flower, Heart, Light

  Hermann Hesse, “Stages”

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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

  Hands, Lust, Pills

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• When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds ... Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?

  David Hume

  Suicide, Fashion, Men

  David Hume (1799). “ESSAYS ON SUICIDE AND THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL”, p.60

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• It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Trying, Lasts

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• Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Crime, Torn

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.185, Prestwick House Inc

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• The real affliction of old age is remorse.

  Cesare Pavese

  Real, Age, Affliction

  "The Moon and the Bonfire". Book by Cesare Pavese. Chapter VIII, p. 49, 1950.

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• Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.

  Aldous Huxley

  Jesus, Men, Names

  "Do What You Will" by Aldous Huxley, (p. 3), 1928.

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• By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

  William Hazlitt

  Revenge, Accomplishment, Suffering

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.495

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• I think for Laura [Bush] it was kind of a sense of remorse because she is very close to the girls. They're busy little souls, and so we don't see them as much as we'd like to. But Laura talks to them all the time.

  George W. Bush

  Girl, Thinking, Soul

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

  Radhanath Swami

  Regret, Humility, Done

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• Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

  Jean Anouilh

  Memories, Past, Hatred

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• You must make a daily effort to look upon others without condemnation. Every judgment takes you away from your goal of peace. Your ego loves your judgments, because with them you remain in a constant state of anguish and remorse. Keep in mind that you do not define anyone with your judgment; you only define yourself as someone who needs to be judged.

  Wayne Dyer

  Love You, Goal, Effort

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• If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Loss, Accountability, Choices

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• I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Moon, Long, Worms

  Charles Baudelaire, “Spleen (Ii)”

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• Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

  Pope Francis

  Light, Evil, Repentance

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• Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Perpetrators, Restitution

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• At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Feelings, The End Of The Day

  Bill O'Reilly (2002). “The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America”, p.7, Three Rivers Press

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• I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

  Jim Goad

  Regret, Prison, Crime

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.

  Susan Cheever

  Coffee, Men, Promise

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Regret, Self

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations, and even employees without much remorse or maybe even hesitation.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Commitment, Organization, Benefits

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger with you the rest of your life and lead to regret, remorse, and a whole cascade of psychological dysfunction.

  Amishi Jha

  Regret, Errors, Dysfunction

  Source: www.gq.com

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• All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains.

  Victor Hugo

  Broken, Hatred, Suffering

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