Peter McWilliams Quotes

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

I'm a little angry in life.

Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward.

Rage can be so common it turns ambient.

I'm just a deeply jealous person. And I want blame everybody else for what I don't have.

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

I've got no one to blame for every time I feel lame.

If someone is responsible, it's me.

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

Everything is your fault if you're any damn good.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

Hate furroweth the brow; and a man may frown till he hateth.

I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"