Alannah Myles Quotes

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

Even without them touching me, I feel dirty about what I do. Alex does even filthier things but says it all washes off with soap. I don’t believe that. I think it all leaves stains. Indelible stains.

I feel there is an angel in me' she'd say 'whom I am constantly shocking

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.