#remorse

Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheist #god #noremorse #science #faith

Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#brutality #fascism #law #might-is-right #natural-law

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

— Jean Racine

#many #remorse #throne #weighs #worries

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

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#awakes #bitter #consciousness #during #prosperity

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#person #punished #remorse #severely #subject

...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

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

He had no cause for self-reproach on the score of neglect, or want of thought, for he had been devoted to her service; and yet a hundret little occasions rose up before him on which he fancied he might have been more zealous, and more earnest, and wished he had been. We need be careful how we deal with those about us; when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much omitted, and so little done; of so many things forgotten, and so many more which might have been repaired. There is no remorse so deep, as that which is unavailing; if we would be spared its tortures, let us remember this, in time. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#remorse #death

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