Moral Pain Quotes

The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

With every physical pain, my moral fibre unravels a little.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely.

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

Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

It matters to me. That's what you don't get. You can't understand. You can't understand what it's like knowing what I did. That whole time being Strigoi...It's like a dream now, but it's one I remember clearly. There can be no forgiveness for me. And what happened with you? I remember that most of all. Everything I did. Everything I wanted to do.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience.