Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

- Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

There will always remain more ashes than remorse.

- Hubert Haddad, Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

- Kahlil Gibran

She who follows another’s course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.

- John Kramer, Blythe

Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should not have been done. ( “Island of regret. Island of remorse” )

- Erik Pevernagie

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

- P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens

...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.

- Amin Maalouf, Balthasar's Odyssey

Everyone is in pain. Most people think pain in massage means something is happening, and if they can endure it, they will be improved, but sometimes the only thing pain means is pain.It a very easy mistake to make, though.. She’d refused for the longest time to get therapy or take any psychoactive drugs because she’d felt that the “darkness” was necessary, not just for her as an actor, but as a human being. You didn’t have to feel slightly terrible all the time, as it turns out. Her only worry now was that slightly terrible was not a flaw in her chemistry, but an appropriate response to being the kind of person that she was. “You’re very hard on yourself,” Luke said. “Can you imagine the kind of person that I’d be if I wasn’t hard on myself?” she said back. Luke should be sympathetic. He was hoping to improve the human race, and it would be hard to get there if the human race thought it was already fantastic, thanks very much.Well, she could still go dark, if she needed to, she could go dark right now. Yesterday she had done Terror. She’d done Fear and Dejection and Remorse. And because she had done Remorse as fully as a person could do it, she knew that she hadn’t ever experienced that kind of pure Remorse before. What she’d felt in the past was polluted Remorse, because half the time she was sorry she was also privately resentful and building a case about why the actions that had led to Remorse could be justified.

- Meg Howrey, The Wanderers

The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.

- Sylvain Reynard, The Raven