Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

He feels a great deal of remorse and sorrow for what he did.

It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.