"He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure."

Remorse, Guilt, Conflict, Conscience

28

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure."

Exlpore more Remorse quotes

"I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty."

Lyn Nofziger, American Press Secretary

Remorse,

"Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Remorse, Regret, Memory, Reflection, Pain

"Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?"

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Remorse, Regret, Ignorance, Reflection, Time

"But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

Remorse, Regret, Obsession, Time, Consequence

"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."

Jean Racine, French Dramatist

Remorse,

"The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

Remorse, Grief, Regret, Sorrow

"Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust,not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear,not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly.An ordure, from beginning to end."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

Remorse, Regret, Existence, Confession, Despair

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Remorse, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

Remorse, Guilt, Parenting, Regret, Responsibility

"Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Remorse, Mistake, Morality, Regret

Explore more quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."

Needs

"Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible."

Philosophy

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

Art

"He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little."

Maturity

"That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot."

Innocence

"It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object."

Affection

"The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb."

Grief

"To do nothing is the way to be nothing."

Philosophy

"The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds--the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveler, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn. But he was himself the chief horror of the scene, and shrank not from its other horrors."

Fear

"He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature man had better die at once than utterly to relinquish,-- that we are not doomed to creep on forever in the old bad way, but that, this very now, there are harbingers abroad of a golden era, to be accomplished in his own lifetime."

Hope