Remorse
noun
A powerful feeling of guilt that comes from having done something wrong.
He felt full of remorse for stealing his friend's bike.
Often appears as...
- feel remorse
- show remorse
noun
A powerful feeling of guilt that comes from having done something wrong.
He felt full of remorse for stealing his friend's bike.
Often appears as...
- feel remorse
- show remorse
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Pro Tip 1/3Strong Emotion
Remorse is a strong, painful emotion, deeper than just feeling sorry.
After realizing the hurt he caused, his remorse kept him awake at night.
Pro Tip 2/3Moral Weight
Remorse implies an awareness and rejection of wrong behavior.
She returned the stolen money, overwhelmed by remorse.
Pro Tip 3/3Desire to Amend
Remorse often includes a wish to fix or undo the harm done.
Out of remorse, he apologized and tried to repair the damage.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Emotion
Remorse is a strong, painful emotion, deeper than just feeling sorry.
After realizing the hurt he caused, his remorse kept him awake at night.
Pro Tip 2/3Moral Weight
Remorse implies an awareness and rejection of wrong behavior.
She returned the stolen money, overwhelmed by remorse.
Pro Tip 3/3Desire to Amend
Remorse often includes a wish to fix or undo the harm done.
Out of remorse, he apologized and tried to repair the damage.
Pro Tip 1/3Strong Emotion
Remorse is a strong, painful emotion, deeper than just feeling sorry.
After realizing the hurt he caused, his remorse kept him awake at night.
Pro Tip 2/3Moral Weight
Remorse implies an awareness and rejection of wrong behavior.
She returned the stolen money, overwhelmed by remorse.
Pro Tip 3/3Desire to Amend
Remorse often includes a wish to fix or undo the harm done.
Out of remorse, he apologized and tried to repair the damage.
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Reel Talk Ep. 10 - When...
better about it and certainly you don't feel a lot of remorse for the way things went but we also got to see what happened at the weigh-in and I don't know there I would say Travis look like he was entirely over at let's all watch together take care of my baby is a beautiful fish right here I don't care what it weighs as long as you get paid and I don't have to complain I
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Strange answers to the...
He said, "You know what? One of the items on the checklist is lack of remorse, but another item on the checklist is cunning, manipulative. So when you say you feel remorse for your crime, they say, 'Typical of the psychopath to cunningly say he feels remorse when he doesn't.' It's like witchcraft, they turn everything upside-down."
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A call to men PIPE Tony...
and I was feeling a tremendous amount of remorse at that time, but I was conflicted, because, while I was feeling remorse, I was excited, because I didn't get caught. But I knew I felt bad about what was happening. This fear, getting outside the man box, totally enveloped me. It was way more important to me,
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Strange answers to the...
psychopath and he said not a psychopath said you know what one of the items on the checklist is lack of remorse but another item on the checklist is cunning manipulative so when you say you feel remorse for your crime they say typical of the psychopath to cunningly say he feels remorse but he doesn't
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What It's Like to Be a...
And one of them, watched him bleed out and then watched an infrared become the same color as the ground that he died on. MORGAN Is there remorse, or there was like consternation? BRANDON I'm sitting there like, I just watched a man bleed out. I felt horrible. I wanted to cry.
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Why are we happy? Why...
with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice."
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In search for the man...
And so I didn't point out that in his own testimony the morning after the crash, Abed did not even mention the bus driver. No, I was quiet. I was quiet because I had not come for truth. I had come for remorse. And so I now went looking for remorse
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The surprising science...
pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly or by remorse for the horror of
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Rethinking infidelity...
but the other is the essential, important act of expressing guilt and remorse for hurting his wife. But the truth is that I have noticed that quite a lot of people who have affairs may feel terribly guilty for hurting their partner,
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Why we love, why we...
And -- basic math! Anyway. In the Western world, women start sooner at sex, have more partners, express less remorse for the partners that they do, marry later, have fewer children,
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Reel Talk Ep. 10 - When...
better about it and certainly you don't feel a lot of remorse for the way things went but we also got to see what happened at the weigh-in and I don't know there I would say Travis look like he was entirely over at let's all watch together take care of my baby is a beautiful fish right here I don't care what it weighs as long as you get paid and I don't have to complain I
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Strange answers to the...
He said, "You know what? One of the items on the checklist is lack of remorse, but another item on the checklist is cunning, manipulative. So when you say you feel remorse for your crime, they say, 'Typical of the psychopath to cunningly say he feels remorse when he doesn't.' It's like witchcraft, they turn everything upside-down."
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A call to men PIPE Tony...
and I was feeling a tremendous amount of remorse at that time, but I was conflicted, because, while I was feeling remorse, I was excited, because I didn't get caught. But I knew I felt bad about what was happening. This fear, getting outside the man box, totally enveloped me. It was way more important to me,
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Strange answers to the...
psychopath and he said not a psychopath said you know what one of the items on the checklist is lack of remorse but another item on the checklist is cunning manipulative so when you say you feel remorse for your crime they say typical of the psychopath to cunningly say he feels remorse but he doesn't
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What It's Like to Be a...
And one of them, watched him bleed out and then watched an infrared become the same color as the ground that he died on. MORGAN Is there remorse, or there was like consternation? BRANDON I'm sitting there like, I just watched a man bleed out. I felt horrible. I wanted to cry.
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Why are we happy? Why...
with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice."
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In search for the man...
And so I didn't point out that in his own testimony the morning after the crash, Abed did not even mention the bus driver. No, I was quiet. I was quiet because I had not come for truth. I had come for remorse. And so I now went looking for remorse
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The surprising science...
pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly or by remorse for the horror of
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Rethinking infidelity...
but the other is the essential, important act of expressing guilt and remorse for hurting his wife. But the truth is that I have noticed that quite a lot of people who have affairs may feel terribly guilty for hurting their partner,
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Why we love, why we...
And -- basic math! Anyway. In the Western world, women start sooner at sex, have more partners, express less remorse for the partners that they do, marry later, have fewer children,
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Delmore Schwartz
American Poet
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
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John Hurt
British Actor
The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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Miep Gies
Dutch Celebrity
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
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Rhianna Pratchett
English Designer
We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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Ogden Nash
American Poet
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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Lyn Nofziger
American Journalist
I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.
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Kevin Costner
American Actor
I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
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William Cowper
English Poet
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Delmore Schwartz
American Poet
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
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John Hurt
British Actor
The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.
Quote examples
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Roman Statesman
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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Miep Gies
Dutch Celebrity
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
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Rhianna Pratchett
English Designer
We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French Philosopher
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
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Ogden Nash
American Poet
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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Lyn Nofziger
American Journalist
I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.
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Kevin Costner
American Actor
I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
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William Cowper
English Poet
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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