BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.
The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good books: 'the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. '
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind. . . A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever.
No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.
As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her.
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
Repentance is accepted remorse.
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.
The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.
It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.
If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.
I wealthiest am when richest in remorse.
Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?
Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
