Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
Richard Russo

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

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

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.
Martin Mull

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

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

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash

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

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Remorse is the pain of sin.
Theodore Parker

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

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
William Cowper

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
George A. Moore