#morse

And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life

...the chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life. ↗

— Pentti Linkola

#misanthrope #noremorse #overpopulation #life

Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more repose and stateliness the greater the pain and shame in her soul. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#remorse #women #love

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheist #god #noremorse #religion

Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. The human invention of god is the problem to begin with. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheist #god #noremorse #religion #religion

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheist #god #noremorse #science #religion

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#atheist #god #noremorse #liberty

Truly there are different kinds of pain.  But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting relief and no remedy. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#pain #regret #relief #remedy #remorse

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#atheist #god #noremorse #atheist

I ran over some dog poop on my drive home last night. But I didn’t feel bad, because I didn’t vote for that particular politician. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#politician #politics #remorse #politicians