Fulton Oursler Quotes

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

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 can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

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

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

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

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've made a lot of mistakes I'm not proud of.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

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?

The monsters are in your own head.

Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.

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

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I'm tortured because I care. I'm always upset about not doing things as good as I think I could have because I care.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.