Remorse Quotations

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

Remorse is the poison of life.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

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.

Pete's confession lacked one major thing in Bud's mind: remorse. I spoke to Bud later, and he told me he got the confession he had expected, but not the expression of genuine remorse he had hoped for.

China hopes Japanese leaders could take seriously the feelings of the Asian countries that fell victims of Japanese militarists, really express their remorse for the historical tragedy and put what they have promised into practice.

If anyone came here today to hear remorse, they won't. Remorse is for a guilty man, and I'm not guilty.

He feels a great deal of remorse and sorrow for what he did.

He expressed extreme remorse for the pain and suffering he inflicted not only on the victim, but also the victim's family.

He seemed to be unrepentant, and there was no remorse or even sometimes there was a hint of defiance. Sometimes, he wasn't very coherent.

People are inclined to have buyer's remorse about him. Most people are going to show up with a mood, and they're going to vote their mood, which is anti-Schwarzenegger.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

I think perhaps Mr. Hoadley is experiencing remorse for his failure to become involved.

Mere words cannot express the remorse I feel for the families, ... My heart goes out to the people involved.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Why should I have remorse for something I didn't do?

There is no remorse for justice. No regret. No remorse.

We are asking you to not approve this plea. It is completely inappropriate for the nature of the crime and for the lack of remorse Daniel Robbins has shown since Jeffrey Harris died.

Personally, I looked for something in him that might have shown remorse or anything along those lines, and I just never saw it the whole time.

A warrior doesnt know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate ones acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self.

They say he's a sociopath because they don't know what else to call him. He has some of the characteristics of what they call a sociopath. He has no remorse or guilt at all. And he had the first and worst sign - sadism to animals as a child.

It was difficult to listen to him up there. He showed no type of remorse or emotion. The travesty is Dan is without a wife, and their two children are without their mother.

It was a good bust. (He) had no remorse for the violations. He was caught and he knew he was caught,

They have regret they got caught. Regret is an intellectual response, remorse is an effect emotional response; they don't have that.

The sentencing court never considered the expression of remorse of the defendant, never considered her attempts to help herself and never considered her rehabilitation efforts.

If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

In my opinion, what's right is charges be dismissed. He was acting in self-defense. He feels remorse for the family, but he was run down and chased for three miles.

He's shown remorse for the victims, the surviving victims, and the pain and suffering. He actually has told them in writing and on the telephone that he's very sorry for what happened to their loved ones, ... But he's not sorry about what he did. I mean, he believes in and I think he's comfortable with that.

If he really felt remorse and contrition, he could've turned himself in for eight years.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

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

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

The idea is to show remorse and change your life, and that's what he's trying to do.

You who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite, and yet knowing that it would fill you with shame and remorse if you heard that one of those men were dead tomorrow morning; you who are letting your neighbor starve, till you hear that he is dying of starvation; or letting your friend's heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him someday

You will never have buyer's remorse with wood. You can change your furniture, window covering, or color scheme, but the wood will always be there and most important be appropriate. Look at Monticello the original wood floors there are still magnificent.

The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.

Remorse for what is done is useless.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

We [Muslims] have to be above you. You [Americans] have to be subdued. No regrets. No remorse.

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

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Remorse --is Memory --awake --/ Her Parties all astir --/ A Presence of Departed Acts --/ At window --and at Door --

. . . I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul. In my degradation I have not been so degraded but that the sight of you with your father, and of this home made such a home by you, has stirred old shadows that I thought had died out of me. Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

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

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Remorse is memory awake.

Remorse begets reform.