Veronica Roth Quotes

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

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

I act the way I act and I'm not proud of it.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

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

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

I did a lot of things I regret.

We've all said and done things we... wish we'd done differently.

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

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

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.

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

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

With 'Seven Deadly Sins,' there was a lot of personal stuff in there that I didn't even realize I'd been carrying around for awhile. And a lot of guilt involved, a lot of emotion, a lot of depression. Once I was done writing that book, I was able to really let go of that stuff.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.