Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

I apologize for nothing.

I don't like the word 'regret.'

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

I've got some repenting to do.

I have no apologies.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

I carry lots of guilt.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Guilt only dreads Liberty of Speech, which drags it out of its lurking Holes, and exposes its Deformity and Horror to Day-light.

I did a lot of things I regret.