Lauren Oliver Quotes

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

I feel terrible about it. Part of it is the horror of what happened and part of it is my guilt about being a part of it.

Your people invented guilt, but my people perfected it.

I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

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

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

I'm ashamed of what I did.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.