Joss Whedon Quotes

I am a big sinner.

I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.

It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN’T SAVE—Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.

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

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

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.

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

This entire administration has been a disgrace from the very beginning to everyone who has had any thing to do with bring it to power. I take my full share of the … shame myself. I can atone for what I have done no otherwise than in refusing to be instrumental in continuing it.

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.

The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't.

I failed the most important people in my life, you know, on September 8, 2009. People who were relying on me more than anything.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

There is some consensus: There's obsession, there's never satiety, and there's always remorse. For me, the big thing is that you're always breaking a promise - for example, you promise yourself you're just going to have coffee with a man, then before you know it, you're in bed together.

Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking what I know. And I know that my aunt Helen would still be alive today if she just bought me one present like everybody else. She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow.

I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.