Samuel Johnson Quotes

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 leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

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.

To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.

If you had special powers, it wouldn't be all fun and games. There would be regrets for things you've done.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

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

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

It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.

I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.