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Definition of Remorse |
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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 |
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Remorse Quotations
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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 There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. Jean Rostand Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? Charles Manson |
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Remorse Translations
remorse in German is Gewissensbisse remorse in Spanish is remordimiento |
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