remorse quotes

  • Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid.

    -William Cowper
      Poems,'The Progress of Error', l.239.

  • Le Bonheur e  tait ma fatalite  , mon remords, mon ver: ma vie serait toujours trop immense pour e"  tre de  voue  e a'   la force et a'   la beaute  . Happiness was my fate, my remorse, my worm: my life would always be too large to be dedicated to force and to beauty.

    - (Jean Nicolas) Arthur Rimbaud
      Une saison en enfer, De  lires, no.2,'Alchimie du verbe'.

  • This minx, of course, Is as sharp as any lynx and blackerdeeper than the drinks and quite as Hot as any hottentot, without remorse!

    - Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
      Fa c° ade,'Hornpipe'.

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