Charlotte Bronte
Novelist, Poet
"Remorse is the poison of life."
Remorse quotes
Remorse
22 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate."
Theodore Parker
Transcendentalist, Minister
"Remorse is the pain of sin."
H. G. Wells
Writer
"There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess"
Jean Racine
Playwright, Poet
"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."
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"The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me."
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"Remorse is memory awake."
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"Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?"
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