Katharine Gun Quotes

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.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

I'm ashamed of what I did.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

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

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

I've created such a monster.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

I carry lots of guilt.

Did I kill anyone?

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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.

I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

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.

The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.