John Dryden Quotes

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

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

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

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

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

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.

Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,--why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

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

I'm ashamed of what I did.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.