I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.
Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.
I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.
I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
An evil conscience is often quiet, but never secure.
I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.
Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.
I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.
I am a moralist. I worry.
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
Horror and moral terror are your friends.
Conscience: something that feels terrible when everything else feels well.
I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
I'm obviously slightly ill, because there is a burning desire to be perfect in me. It's probably the Catholic, or the ex-Catholic in me.
We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
