Albert Camus Quotes

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

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

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.