W. H. Auden Quotes

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

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 walking day of judgment

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.

You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

I've never been one to take glee in anyone's demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, 'His life is over.'