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• I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Biting, Ought

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

  Charles Darwin

  Dog, Heart, Animal

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume I, chapter II: "Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals", p. 40, darwin-online.org.uk. 1871.

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• Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

  William Carlos Williams

  Imagination, Mind, Use

  William Carlos Williams (1971). “Imaginations”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Chance, Language

  Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

  Winifred Holtby

  Regret, Affliction, Cures

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sin, Feels, Know How

  'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 1, sect. 3

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• It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Guilt

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Night, Men

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

  Ogden Nash

  Mind, Violent

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us happiness or remorse, gain or loss, we’re all on our individual paths to enlightenment. Even when we’ve done something we consider wrong, we’re still on our path to enlightenment.

  Chris Prentiss

  Ocean, Loss, Rivers

  Chris Prentiss (2007). “The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery”, p.243, BookBaby

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• Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Evil, Sin

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• 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.

  Jayson Blair

  Firsts, Not Sure, Shows

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• I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.

  Robert Southwell

  Saint

  Saint Robert Southwell (1872). “The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell”, p.40

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• We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

  William Hazlitt

  Sacrifice, Long, Matter

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

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• Though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership.

  Carl Rogers

  Marriage, Learning, Agony

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• Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Hurt

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 24, 2013

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• When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?

  Joey Tempest

  Thinking, Independence, Done

  Song: A Place to Call Home

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• Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Soul, Guilt, Warning

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• So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

  John Milton

  Hope, Fear, Farewell

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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

  Yukio Mishima

  Facts, Sin

  Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

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• Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse.

  Bryan Procter

  Brain, Despair, Strikes

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• Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Pain, Sin

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• I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.

  John Connolly

  Sorry, Grief, Heart

  John Connolly (2012). “The John Connolly Collection #2: The White Road, The Black Angel, and The Unquiet”, p.1300, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Worry, And Love, Anticipation

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• And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

  Julian Barnes

  Feelings, Guilt, Stronger

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.99, Random House

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