“Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.”
William Cowper
“Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid / In every bosom where her nest is made.”
“Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.”
Aldous Huxley
“All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
William Blake
“Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?”
Charles Manson
“When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must sing,We are blest by everything,Everything we look upon is blest.”
William Butler Yeats
“Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live”
Elizabeth Akers Allen
