Chelsea Cain Quotes

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

I'm not the best dog owner.

Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?

I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.

Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.

I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma

I find it difficult to feel responsible for the suffering of others. That's why I find war so hard to bear. It's the same with animals: I feel the less harm I do, the lighter my heart. I love a light heart. And when I know I'm causing suffering, I feel the heaviness of it. It's a physical pain. So it's self-interest that I don't want to cause harm.

It's a big issue for me - feeling like I should be helping every person who asks for something or who has a problem.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.

I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it hard to handle the fame or adulation. I didn't feel worthy of it. I was ashamed by who I thought I was because I felt partly responsible [for the abuse] and I was never able to enjoy the stuff I should have been able to enjoy. My first thought when I won the Tour was: 'My God, I'm going to be famous', and then I thought, 'He's going to call'. I was always waiting for that phone call. I lived in fear that anyone would ever find out.