Janet Fitch Quotes

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

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

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

I think you always have regrets.

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.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

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

I've created such a monster.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

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.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

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

I am aware that I have caused you pain and anguish, but I think you will allow me to take my decision.

Your people invented guilt, but my people perfected it.

The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.

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've done a lot of things that I regret.

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