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There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop. By Greg Laurie Remorse Difference Repentance Caught Stop

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation. By Matt Haig Situation Remorse Action Logical Motive

Remorse-Regret that one waited so long to do it. By H.l. Mencken Remorseregret Waited Long

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war. By Abu Abbas Remorse Feel War Makes Mistakes

Remorse for what is done is useless. By Philo Remorse Useless

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us never think about us as much as we think about them, and that is the ultimate irony: their deeds live inside us, festering, while they live out in the world, plucking peaches off trees, biting juicily into them, their minds on things lovely and sweet. By Samuel Park Regret Fair Consolation World Things

Behind Past Mistakes and Regrets By Sam Rivers Regrets Past Mistakes

No excuses. No apologies. No Regrets By Brian Kinney Excuses Regrets Apologies

The passion fades, the remorse is eternal. By Lin Yutang Fades Eternal Passion Remorse

regret with dignity and grace. By Dalai Lama Xiv Regret Grace Dignity

Yes, I do have remorse, but I'm not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I've always wondered myself why I don't feel more remorse. By Jeffrey Dahmer Remorse Profound Wondered Feel

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. By Charlotte Bronte Miss Eyre Dread Err Life

Regrets grow tiresome By Melvin Regrets Tiresome Grow

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment. By Plutarch Flesh Makes Wounds Reason Pains

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,In every bosom where her nest is made,Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. By William Cowper Remorse Truth Denies Breast Fatal

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow. By Horace Bushnell Guilt Sorrow Nerve

My vengeance is my guilt By Ovid Guilt Vengeance

Regret and repentance do not always walk hand in hand. By Anne Elisabeth Stengl Regret Hand Repentance Walk

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. By James Ellis Remorse Misfortune Sin Heart Life

No regrets. No apologies. By K.c. Washington Regrets Apologies

Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. They're like brands. By John Boyne Regrets Apologies Things Happen Person

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing. By Umberto Eco Thing Atone Life Repent Obsessed

GUILT SPILLS ITSELF IN FEAR OF BEING SPILT, By Dean Koontz Guilt Spilt Spills Fear

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential. By Willard Gaylin Shame Society Potential Guilt Noble

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse. By P.g. Wodehouse Remorse Bungled Crime Brings

Guilt requires absolution By Lauren Oliver Guilt Absolution Requires

Remorse is the poison of life. Reformation may be its cure. By Charlotte Bronte Remorse Life Poison Reformation Cure

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Remorse Adversity Sleeps Prosperity Awakes

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves. By Khalil Gibran Guilty Lay Remorse Innocent Lift

seeking forgiveness, By Leenie Brown Seeking Forgiveness

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity. By Jean-Jacques Rousseau Remorse Prosperity Sleeps Atmosphere

I regret. I apologize. I blame myself. I continue as before. By Mason Cooley Regret Apologize Blame Continue

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart. By Charles R. Swindoll Remorse Follow Sorrow Caught Pain

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed? By Yukio Mishima Sin Remorse Sort Precedes Existed

The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199] By Mary Catherine Bateson Learning Critical Question Experience Led

Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made By Adele Mistakes Memories Regrets Made

Remorse, predictably, was the form taken by her distress, the merciless whipping that is self-condemnation, as if in times as bizarre as these there were a right way and a wrong way that would have been clear to somebody else, as if in confronting such predicaments the hand of stupidity is ever far from guiding anyone. By Philip Roth Remorse Predictably Distress Selfcondemnation Form

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism. By Pascal Bruckner Hitlerism Germans Generation Remorse Instance

Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream. By Francesco Petrarca Shame Vanities Remorse Dream Fruit

The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous. By Anna Letitia Barbauld Remorse Virtuous Indignation Action Occur

Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion By Lynn Crilly Guilt Emotion Destructive Ultimately Pointless

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. By Erma Bombeck Guilt Giving Gift

AmendsRegret lingers, niggles. Yellow lilieson the table, gone brown in the vase.The garden we talk about, endlessly, but never begin, deterred by tough sod.On the edge of the walk, the wheelbarrowfull of stones waits like an undeliveredapology. Within, the floor needs scrubbingand only hands and knees will do the job.I know that forgiveness is a simple meal - a salad, a boiled potato, a glass of tea.Easy to prepare, to offer. That the silenceafterward will satisfy, perhaps even nourish. By Antonia Clark Niggles Amendsregret Lingers Endlessly Yellow

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good. By Eileen Wilks Regrets Guilt Useless Form Good

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief. By Mary Shelley Grief Agonies Remorse Poison Luxury

Regrets ... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment. By Andrew Ashling Regrets Bootless Mind Moment Vain

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others. By Marianne Williamson Atonement Regret Irresponsible Amends Deeply

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future. By Penelope Leach Guilt Emotions Destructive Future Mourns

In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act. By Graham Greene Remorse Act View Thing Died

Regrets are hollow things. By Ann Werner Regrets Things Hollow

Guilt is like a putrid sludge that courses through our flesh. By Robert Palasciano Guilt Flesh Putrid Sludge

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate. By William Shakespeare Abandon Remorse Accumulate Head Horror

Given in love. Defiled by remorse. By Tracy Anne Warren Love Defiled Remorse

Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas. By D. Patrick Miller Tears Feels Dramatic Ancient Pattern

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face By Thomas Southerne Infancy Shame Face Guilt Blush

Guilt is the toothache of the soul. By Tommy Cotton Guilt Soul Toothache

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance. By Henry George Bohn Forgiveness Vengeance Noblest

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. By Jean Anouilh Obligations Hatreds Injuries Expect Memories

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul. By Armand Hammer Regrets Soul Recriminations Hurt

Guilt has got a power; it never leaves us until it sorts out with the actual pain By D.n. Joshi Guilt Power Pain Leaves Sorts

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me. By William Shakespeare Judgment Word Hath Urging Bred

The real affliction of old age is remorse. By Cesare Pavese Remorse Real Affliction Age

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty. By Lyn Nofziger Guilty Show Remorse

Often what keeps us stuck and continually doing penance is the very feeling that we must pay for lack of action. We become caught in a circle of blame, condemn ourselves, feel hopeless, and feed the fire - or slow burn - by reciting like a mantra our history of inertia and self-judged wrong choices. Well, let's break that dead-end cycle of waste and regret. By Noelle Sterne Action Stuck Continually Penance Feeling

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. By Dean Koontz Guilt Horse Tireless Sorrow Grief

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity. By Mason Cooley Guilt Selfpity Stirs

Regret; The saddest word in the English language. By Tonya Hurley Regret English Language Saddest Word

Forgiveness is a GIFT to yourself By Yennie Hardiwidjaja Gift Forgiveness

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. By Eckhart Tolle Guilt Regret Resentment Sadness Past

Guilt is the greatest monster. Remorse, a killer. But the worst are the memories. Yet sometimes, they are the only things that keep our people alive. By Melina Marchetta Guilt Monster Greatest Remorse Killer

Forgiveness (n.) releasing the toxins of bitterness. By Courtney C. Stevens Forgiveness Releasing Bitterness Toxins

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. By Gary Chapman Forgiveness Feeling Commitment

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned. By Alice Mcdermott Guilt Earned Glorious

Repentance is an internal shift By Dan B. Allender Repentance Shift Internal

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it. By Stefan Zweig Point Implicated Shame Touches Distant

As years pass, and the abundance of the future is depleted, the crux of old mistakes and the cost of old choices are ever recalibrated. Resentment, the interest in umbrage derived from being wronged, is computed minute by minute, savagely, however you try to ignore it. By Gregory Maguire Pass Depleted Recalibrated Years Abundance

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are. By David D. Burns Guilt Remorse Feel Bad Fill

It doesn't feel like it was me who was doing that thing. And it's so hard to feel responsible for something you don't remember. So I never feel bad enough. I feel bad, but the thing that I've done - it's removed from me. It's like it doesn't belong to me. By Paula Hawkins Feel Thing Bad Remember Hard

Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you've got is a empty fist and a lot of regret. By Benjamin Wood Hold Grudge Long Forget Holding

Guilt is a powerful, powerful thing. By C.m. Stunich Guilt Thing Powerful

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention. By Jeremy Collier Remorse Wound Circumstances Conscience Man

If someone had really done you an ill turn and later came to you and said, "I am truly sorry," would that mean as much to you as "the burden of it has been intolerable to me"? Remorse By Gail Godwin Ill Turn Burden Intolerable Remorse

Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them. By Sharon Salzberg Lies Shame Bodies Acts Real

There are things we can't undo, but perhaps there is a kind of constructive remorse that could transform regrettable acts into something of service to life. By Gail Godwin Undo Life Things Kind Constructive

There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us ashamed of ourselves when it was happening: there is a pleasant panoramic sense of what it all was and how it all had to be. Why, if we are not vain or snobbish, need we desire that it should have been different? The better things we missed may yet be enjoyed or attained by someone else somewhere: why isn't that just as good? And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place By George Santayana Find Happening Remorse Time Long

Of all means to regeneration, Remorse is surely the most wasteful. By E. M. Forster Remorse Regeneration Wasteful Surely

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. By William Makepeace Thackeray Senses Remorse Active Man Moral

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. By Saint Augustine Repentant Guilt Tears Wash Stain

Regret is a self-inflicted emotional scar. By Steve Maraboli Regret Scar Selfinflicted Emotional

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness. By Emily Thorne Time Intentions Bad Forgiveness Commit

Guilt is a rope that wears thin. By Ayn Rand Guilt Thin Rope Wears

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. By Cassia Leo Forgiveness Gift Give

Regret for the things we have done will be tempered by time. It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. By Sydney J. Harris Things Time Regret Tempered Inconsolable

Resentment is a storytelling passion,' says the philosopher Charles Griswold in his book Forgiveness. I know well how compelling those stories are, how they grant immortality to an old injury. The teller goes in circles like a camel harnessed to a rotary water pump, diligently extracting misery, reviving feeling with each retelling. Feelings are kept alive that would fade away without narrative, or are invented by narratives that may have little to do with what once transpired and even less to do with the present moment. By Rebecca Solnit Forgiveness Charles Griswold Resentment Passion

I had thought about forgiveness more and more ... I knew it wasn't a light that could be switched on in an instant-it grew day by day, week by week, month by month-but something was changing inside me now during the hours when I sat alone and tried to calm my feelings. A seed had been sown, and I sensed that, just as I'd once faced a choice about whether to use violence on the night when I stared at the gun, I know had another choice: to remain trapped in the bitterness of the past or to find peace in the present. By Emmanuel Jal Thought Forgiveness Day Week Choice

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying. By Samuel Johnson Guilt Solicitudes Detestable Betraying Horrors

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. By Aldous Huxley Chronic Remorse Agreed Sentiment Moralists

But some mistakes can never be righted and the guilt eats away at the soul. Of all the emotions we have, I have learnt that guilt is the most corrosive. Anger passes quickly, and hatred mellows with age and learning, but guilt endures. By Danny Scheinmann Soul Guilt Mistakes Righted Eats

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. By William Carlos Williams Imagination Wipe Sting Remorse Instruct

Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom By Joseph Goldstein Seeking Wisdom Heart Guilt Oneself