This collection holds 74 remorse quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are William Cowper, Maverick Carter and Theodore Parker.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Remorse begets reform.

I have survivor's remorse.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Remorse is the poison of life.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

Remorse for what is done is useless.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

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

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

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

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.

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

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

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

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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

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

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

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

Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?

We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

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

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

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

I should have got a better deal in my career, but everything has its time. You can't rush things, feel remorse or regret.

I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg.

I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been for me.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

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

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

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

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

I am a Gemini. We have split personalities. While at work, I am fully in it. I can be attached yet very detached. I have no feelings of remorse.

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.

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