Definition of Remorse

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Definition of Remorse
	Remorse The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life. Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion. Related Definitions: Anguish, By, Committed, Compassion, Compunction, Conscience, Crime, Excited, For, Gnawing, Guilt, Life, Like, Of, One, Or, Pain, Past, Pity, Sense, Sorrow, Sympathetic, The

Remorse Quotations

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

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

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
Ogden Nash

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

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

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

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

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

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
Anita Loos

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

Remorse Translations

remorse in German is Gewissensbisse
remorse in Spanish is remordimiento

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