Libba Bray Quotes

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

I did some bad stuff. I don't remember what in particular, but I did some bad stuff. So the morning of Christmas, I wake up and my brother is there, my sister, my mom, everyone's got gifts and I can't find my gifts. No gifts. They acted like Santa didn't' bring me anything because I wasn't good.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

I think silence is the condition you accept as the judgment on your crimes.

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

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

Let's not talk punishment.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

I experienced the judgement of a lot of people - and deservedly so.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!