Clive Barker Quotes

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

I have sinned against my brother the ass.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.

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

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.

I have apologised to the police.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.