remorse

Speech parts

1. remorse - Noun

2. remorse - Verb

The anguish, like gnawing pain, excited by a sense of guilt; compunction of conscience for a crime committed, or for the sins of one's past life.

Sympathetic sorrow; pity; compassion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

compunction self-reproach rue penitence grief regret repentance anguish contrition ruth heartache pain anxiety guilt distress

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bliss beatitude advantage belief faith confidence

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rue regret sorrow ruefulness

Remorse is the pain of sin. Theodore Parker

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

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. Ogden Nash

Remorse is worse than a beating. Greek Proverb

Youth is a folly; maturity, a struggle; old age a remorse. Mexican Proverb

Remorse is lust's dessert. English Proverb