Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. Anita Loos
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. Ogden Nash
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong; it can end everything. Honore de Balzac
Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Aldous Huxley
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. Ogden Nash
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. Jean Racine
In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day’s vanity, the night’s remorse.
William Butler Yeats
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. Jean Jacques Rousseau
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid. William Cowper