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.
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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
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
I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
Thomas Kempis
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
Anita Loos
Remorse Translations
remorse in German is Gewissensbisse
remorse in Spanish is remordimiento
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