Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)

Remorse turns us against ourselves. (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort)

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)

There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die. (Quote by - Mary Elizabeth Braddon)

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. (Quote by - James Ellis)

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. (Quote by - Juvenal)

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)

If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. (Quote by - Gilbert Parker)

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave! (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)

To be left alone And face to face with my own crime, had been Just retribution. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)