Michael Frayn Quotes

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

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.

There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.

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.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

I feel bad for everyone I've gone out with.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

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

Decree of Self-Reproach

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

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!

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.

I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.

When I get out, I get annoyed with myself.

I'm a bad person.

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

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

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

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.