Stephen Hawking Quotes

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.

You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.

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

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

I grew up Catholic, so I feel guilty about everything.

Everything is my fault when you're me. I don't know why.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.

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 know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.

I've got no one to blame for every time I feel lame.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

I'm awash in self-contempt!

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

I’ve blamed her for all of this, for leaving, for ruining me. And maybe that was the seed of it, but from that one little seed grew this tumor of a flowering plant. And I’m the one who nurtures it. I water it. I care for it.I nibble from its poison berries. I let it wrap around my neck, choking the air right out of me. I’ve done that. All by myself. All to myself.