The hell within him. [ Milton ]

Remorse is virtue's root. [ Bryant ]

Remorse is the pain of sin. [ Theodore Parker ]

Remorse weeps tears of blood. [ Coleridge ]

Remorse is the fruit of crime. [ Juvenal ]

Repentance is accepted remorse. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Repentance is an avowed remorse. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Remorse turns us against ourselves. [ Chamfort ]

Abandon all remorse;
On horror's head horrors accumulate. [ William Shakespeare ]

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow
In the brain as mischief or remorse. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

So writhes the mind remorse hath riven. [ Byron ]

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid. [ Cowper ]

Make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of Nature
Shake my fell purpose. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good. [ Milton ]

Farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear;
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good! [ Milton ]

Judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. [ William Shakespeare ]

The illusion is brief, the remorse is long. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

High minds, of native pride and force.
Most deeply feel thy pangs. Remorse!
Fear, for their scourge, mean villains have,
Thou art the torturer of the brave! [ Scott ]

To be left alone
And face to face with my own crime, had been
Just retribution. [ Longfellow ]

Remorse is the last sigh of expiring virtue. [ La Beaumelle ]

Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce
Of that serene companion - a good name.
Recovers not his loss; but walks with shame,
With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse. [ Wordsworth ]

Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity. [ Rousseau ]

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made.
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. [ Cowper ]

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows.
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost,
Weeps only tears of poison. [ Coleridge ]

God speaks to our hearts through the voice of remorse. [ De Bernis ]

Revenge is lost in agony, and wild remorse to rage succeeds. [ Byron ]

I am afraid to think what I have done; look on it again I dare not. [ William Shakespeare ]

To consume an honest soul with remorse is the greatest of all crimes. [ Mademoiselle Clairon ]

That is the bitterest of all, - to wear the yoke of our own wrongdoing. [ George Eliot ]

Except pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary. [ Rousseau ]

One of those terrible moments when the wheel of passion stands suddenly still. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

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

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done, as the fear of consequences. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Sin and hedgehogs are born without spikes; but how they prick and wound after their birth, we all know. [ Richter ]

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. [ Jeremy Collier ]

All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. [ Victor Hugo ]

We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there. [ Chateaubriand ]

Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. [ Lew Wallace ]

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. [ James Ellis ]

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it. [ Thomas a Kempis ]

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. [ Beaconsfield ]

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. [ Plutarch ]

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. [ Tillotson ]

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses, - the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. [ Thackeray ]

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the later to a soul changed for the better. [ Joubert ]

Urge them while their souls are capable of this ambition, lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath of soft petitions, pity and remorse, cool and congeal again to what it was. [ William Shakespeare ]

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance. [ Seneca ]

There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom. [ Schiller ]

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse - a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. [ Colton ]

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. [ Miss M. E. Braddon ]