Remorse
Painful regret with a wish to repair or undo harm one believes one caused.
596 passages · 2 Vela essays
Study and magazine
Long-form guide in the magazine
An essay on how this word lives in language, in the tagged corpus, and in figurative art when curators pair passage with image — not a list of stages, not permission to feel.
Read the guideBooks that illuminate remorse
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Magazine pieces that take remorse as a subject. Ordered by how central the emotion is to the piece.
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Augustine, or How the West Learned to Be Ashamed
The bishop who fused shame, desire, and original sin — and what Latin Christianity overwrote to do it
What Augustine of Hippo actually taught about sex, how his biography and opponents shaped Latin doctrine, and what was lost when the West received him as normative.
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Adjacent
On Grief
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