Greg LeMond Quotes

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

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

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

Clearly something had gone wrong, badly, only I wasn't quite sure what—apart from knowing that I was responsible somehow, in the generalized miasma of shame and unworthiness and being-a-burden that never quite left me.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming shut and I was being placed in an isolation cell. No one else could possibly be feeling what I was. I hated my depression and all of its symptoms.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

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

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

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.