Jesse Eisenberg Quotes

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

There is no way I could ever look somebody in the eye and say that I can make them feel good about the fact that they are losing their job.

If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'

I didn't realise how devastating my behavior could be - looking back, I'm very embarrassed. I just buckled under the anxiety.

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.

I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.

There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being "passive aggressive.

I've got no one to blame for every time I feel lame.

I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility.

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.