Dorothea Dix Quotes

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

I think people always misjudge me.

I look into people's eyes and I know they think I'm a bad guy.

It is foolish to hold against me remarks that I never made.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

I have a feeling that I'm going to be blamed for everything that's ever happened.

When I graduated from college, I thought I was losing my hair. And I started looking into hair transplants. I was talking to my mom. My mom said, 'You're crazy. You have so much hair.' It was a real lesson in your mind playing tricks on you. You can make your mind think anything is happening.

I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.

I don't really experience much embarrassment.

Each person must ask what his relationship is to the scapegoat. I am not aware of my own, and I am persuaded that the same holds true for my readers. We only have legitimate enmities. And yet the entire universe swarms with scapegoats.

There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.

I think people have a warped sense of who I am.

Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.

I'm not going to sit here and say I'm innocent, because I've done things. But to get the reputation that I've got, I don't think I've done enough. I don't have a criminal record.

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.

My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.