Nora Roberts Quotes

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

I come as a punishment from God.

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.

What punishments of God are not gifts?

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Oh people, know that you have committed great sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you!

I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

Be warned, therefore, that one does not go to hell to light a cigarette.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.

The thundering voice that wrings, in one dark, damning moment, crimes of years!

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

God'll send the bill to you.

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.

For the gods, though slow to see, see well, whenever a man casting aside worship turns folly.