Mercedes Lackey Quotes

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

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

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

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.

I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.

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

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

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

My head has got regrets, but I haven't.

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.