Tryon Edwards Quotes

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

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.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

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

I've created such a monster.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity; so far as it exists, it is binding, so as on no account to be neglected.

If you follow this policy you're going to have the deaths of some brave people on your conscience.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

My role in Palin is something that there's not a day that has gone by that I don't have regret about.

I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it.

If you had special powers, it wouldn't be all fun and games. There would be regrets for things you've done.

I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.