Emma Forrest Quotes

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

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.

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

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

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

I carry lots of guilt.

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!

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

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

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

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

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.

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.

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.

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.

I always felt guilty. My whole life.