William Shakespeare Quotes

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

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

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

It's a very, very fascinating story for me, cause it's about a man who's been doing bad; bad things. And he's a father of four children in parochial school, he's a lieutenant of detectives, but he's in conflict with himself and with trying to do what's right.

Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

I became conflicted in my late teens.

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

It was an act of both conscience and cowardice.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

I think the biggest obstacle I still have to overcome is myself, and just kind of struggling every day with what to do with the work and where to go next.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.