Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

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.

Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.

I'm ashamed of what I did.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

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

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

I feel terrible about it. Part of it is the horror of what happened and part of it is my guilt about being a part of it.

Your people invented guilt, but my people perfected it.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

I'm awash in self-contempt!

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.