#remorse

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell. ↗

— George A. Moore

#heaven #hell #remorse

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

— Ogden Nash

#man #remorse

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. ↗

— Jean Racine

#many #remorse #throne #weighs #worries

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#far #feel #how #i #know

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#about #feel #much #never #remorse

...I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. [...] It is important in life to conclude things properly. Only then you can let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse..." ~Life of Pi, chapter 94 ↗

— Yann Martel

#harmony #life #regret #remorse #life

While love shuts down areas of the brain associated with judgment and reasoning by contrast those consumed with hate have very active reasoning facilities. It takes logic to figure out how to attack your enemy. ↗

— Randall Parker

#noremorse #love

He loves deep... hates hard, ever'thing's that killed what he loves. All great warriors are sich men. ↗

— Forrest Carter

#josey-wales #love #noremorse #revenge #western

The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is a hard pill to swallow. Knowing the world will go on for another billion years after death and you will have no recollection of anything, just as you have no recollection of the billion years before your birth is a mind-boggling intuition, ↗

— Hewitt E. Moore

#life #noremorse #philosophy #universe #death

Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest."-Lo-The Wild Hunt ↗

— Ashley Jeffery

#guilt #remorse #the-wild-hunt #death