Louise Penny Quotes

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

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

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.

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

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

There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat in Vegas, it comes right home with you. If you cheat in Vegas, you walk home as a cheater. You lie awake at a night a cheater. You cannot escape it.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

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

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

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

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do.