Remorse Quotes - Page 13

• I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Pain, Museums, Japan

  "Koizumi: 'Heartfelt remorse' for Korean suffering" By Sohn Jie-Ae, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2001.

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• Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

  Honore de Balzac

  Powerful, Sin, Repentance

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Seraphita: Works of Balzac”, p.59, 谷月社

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• Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Blood, Fever

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author.

  James Boswell

  Drinking, Play, Criticism

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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