Eric Cantona Quotes

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

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

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.

I don't think I can be too hard on myself.

I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.

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

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.

I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

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.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

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

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

You talk about crying! The spring of 1988, I spent a fair length of time trying to come to grips with who I was and the habits I had and what they did to people that I truly loved. I really spent a period of time where, I suspect, I cried three or four times a week.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

I act the way I act and I'm not proud of it.

I do know that it takes a lot to look in that mirror and fix yourself.