Terry Tempest Williams Quotes

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything.

Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

Shame is the shadow of love.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.

His face was filled with broken commandments.

In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought it made him hateful. As if suffering was shameful, disgusting, as if pain were a crime. Who can judge another man's suffering?

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

I didn't want to be the monster! I didn't want to kill this room full of harmless children! I didn't want to lose everything I'd gained in a lifetime of sacrifice and denial!

He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent

Ethan thought he was doing the right thing. He knew it was crazy. And he didn’t want to go, but he had to anyway. Ethan was like that. Even if he was dead. He saved the world, but he shattered mine. What now?

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