"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

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

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"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

"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

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

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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"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

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

Lyn Nofziger, American Press Secretary

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

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Remorse, Regret, Memory, Reflection, Pain

"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."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist

Remorse, Guilt, Conflict, Conscience

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

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Remorse, Mistake, Morality, Regret

"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

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