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Definition
a feeling of deep regret for doing something that was wrong
- Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.Chapter 14 (68% in)
- A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.Chapter 4 (83% in)
- Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.Chapter 14 (68% in)
- I only remind you of your own words, sir: you said error brought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poison of existence.Chapter 14 (72% in)
- I only remind you of your own words, sir: you said error brought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poison of existence.Chapter 14 (72% in)
- I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution — such is not my taste.Chapter 19 (62% in)
- There was such deep remorse in his eye, such true pity in his tone, such manly energy in his manner; and besides, there was such unchanged love in his whole look and mien — I forgave him all: yet not in words, not outwardly; only at my heart's core.Chapter 27 (6% in)
- I ought probably to have done or said nothing; but I was so tortured by a sense of remorse at thus hurting his feelings, I could not control the wish to drop balm where I had wounded.Chapter 27 (25% in)
- Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles — fevered with delusive bliss one hour — suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame the next — or to be a village-schoolmistress, free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England?Chapter 31 (21% in)
- I appealed to one who, in the discharge of what he believed his duty, knew neither mercy nor remorse.Chapter 34 (63% in)
- I began to experience remorse, repentance; the wish for reconcilement to my Maker.Chapter 37 (89% in)
There are no more uses of "remorse" in Jane Eyre.
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