Ani DiFranco Quotes

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.

sorrow is easier than guilt.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

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.

Guilt was its own prison.

The worst pain in the world is shame.

I'd had my share of rain. My mother's illness ... had weighed on me, but the years before had been heavy, too. I was only twenty eight.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

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

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

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.