Remorse Quotes

Remorse Quote of the day

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse.

Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race.

Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.

The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.

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

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

Remorse is the poison of life.

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse.

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

Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.

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.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

Remorse for what is done is useless.

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

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

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

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

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

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse

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

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.

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

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.