Harold Coffin Quotes

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

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

I have no problems with failures, I'm afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don't sleep that night. I'm scared of facing myself.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.

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

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

I'm consumed with what I didn't do. I know I should've come out sooner, and I'm sorry for that.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

It's my own conscience that gets to me more so than anybody thinking about me. I think too much.

Sometimes I've said things that I shouldn't have.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

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

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.