Erma Bombeck Quotes

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'd feel guilty just doing gags.

I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.

Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

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

I'm ashamed of what I did.

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

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.

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

I carry lots of guilt.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

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 tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.