Quotes about remorse

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

— William C. Bryant

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Remorse begets reform.

— William Cowper

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

— H. L. Mencken

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

— George Moore

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

— Ogden Nash

Remorse is the pain of sin.

— Theodore Parker

We regret, repent and remorse only when we have lost exhaustively.

— Mak Kazeronnie