Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

To have lied is to have suffered.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

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.

As I look back on it I am very ashamed of my vote on the McCarran Act. [He supported it.] I do have some excuses and alibis, though in retrospect they are not very good ones.

I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.

Liar' is the best work I've done.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

I am a big sinner.

I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.

It was kind of like, my worst crime was that I was a pop star.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Everybody is laden with guilt.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am. ...It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?