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• Remorse is the pain of sin.

  Theodore Parker

  Pain, Sin

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology”, p.404

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• When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Blessed, Heart, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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• Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
  In every bosom where her nest is made,
  Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
  And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.

  William Cowper

  Eggs, Scorpions, Nests

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.68

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• All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

  William Blake

  Future, Desperate, Rage

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.421, Pearson Education

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• I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Believe, Guilty, Shows

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• If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Tasks, Addresses

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

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• Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sleep, Atmosphere, Prosperity

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• And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!

  Michael Biehn

  Terminator 2

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• There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

  James Ellis

  Heart, Sin, Misfortunes

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• It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sorrow, Able, Sin

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• Remorse turns us against ourselves.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Turns

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• I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Believe, Men, Moral

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.354

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• The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kind, Judgment

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1832). “The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby”, p.159

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• There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Affection, Appreciated, Lost

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3998, Delphi Classics

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• Remorse is the fruit of crime.

  Juvenal

  Fruit, Crime

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• The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Done, May

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• For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Believe, Men, Moral

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.354

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• Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

  Horace

  Sleep, Wine, Leisure

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• There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Soul, Wicked

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• Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

  John Dryden

  Revenge, Night, Mind

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• And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Real, Believe

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• Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,--why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?

  Pietro Metastasio

  Heart, Cry, Sin

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• 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Judging, Criminals, Faces

  "The Flies". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, act 1, 1943.

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• Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

  Joe Abercrombie

  Pain, Steel, Pity

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• Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Greatness, Abuse

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Richard Farmer, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.34

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