Amy Sedaris Quotes

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

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them, but I took four, and I went home and cried. My mom took me back, and I paid for the missing piece.

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.

I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

Psychologically, we all have that cross to bear when we do shady things.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.