Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

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

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

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

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

I'm a bad person.

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.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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

I hate the past - especially my own past.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

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.

I could not shake the feeling that I was bad and not to be trusted and that is why I am imprisoned here.

I'm consumed with what I didn't do. I know I should've come out sooner, and I'm sorry for that.

I think it's a lot harder to forgive yourself for your own mistakes.

You make one mistake and you feel like the worst person in the world.

I apologise now to everybody for being the way I've been. What I was doing, torturing myself over an illness, is horrible. You push them away because you're trying to quantify what's gone on.

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.

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

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

I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.

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

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.