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Quotes About Remorse

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
~ Benjamin Franklin
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.
~ John Hurt
The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.
~ Jeaniene Frost
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
~ Carolyn Wells
Venus de Milo's mother, who once said to Venus, You never call me. Can't you pick up a phone? Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.
~ John Clare
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
~ Lew Wallace
A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you're going to regret it.
~ Carroll Bryant
There is no shame in doing the right thing, even if its too late.
~ Vishala Katta, A Window Seat
Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself.
~ Debasish Mridha
A clear conscience is due to a poor memory.
~ R.J. Newman
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
~ Tacitus
Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.
~ Radhanath Swami
We think a lot of things but can not take the right steps at the right time. And this is why the next time we're gonna regret.
~ Sudeb Gharami
Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.
~ William Butler Yeats
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it.
~ William Congreve
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
~ William Cowper
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase Are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
~ William Cullen Bryant
No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience.
~ William Ellery Channing
I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
~ William Faulkner
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
~ William Faulkner
There is no mountain so heavy as the guilt of the least sin is to an awakened conscience.
~ William Gurnall