(129 quotes found)
“One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence”
Ogden Nash
“BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr. Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it.”
Ambrose Bierce
“There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.”
Seneca
“One way to show remorse is just say, 'I am so sorry I killed those people.' Another way to show remorse is with your life, what you do with your life. And look what he's done with his.”
Sister Helen Prejean
“Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
““A warrior doesn’t know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one’s acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.””
Carlos Castaneda
“Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.”
Henry Miller
“I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.”
Thomas a Kempis
“Remorse --is Memory --awake --/ Her Parties all astir --/ A Presence of Departed Acts --/ At window --and at Door --”
Emily Dickinson
