Anne Rice Quotes

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

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

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

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.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

I just felt sick. I was actually executing people. I knew it was wrong, and I should have voted against it. But I didn’t.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

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

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

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.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

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

None of my problems come from the people I've killed.

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.