Lawrence Durrell Quotes

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

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

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

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

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

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

I am not sorry for my crime.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

I am a big sinner.

I was a cheap criminal; I did many, many wrongs. I admit that. Of course, if I could tell each person I'm sorry, I would.

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

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

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

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

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.