Salvatore Quasimodo Quotes

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I must end it. There is no hope. I will be at peace. No one had anything to do with it. My decision totally.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

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

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

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

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

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

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

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.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

I apologize for nothing.

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

I have no apologies.