Jessica Williams Quotes

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.

I have survivor's remorse.

You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.

I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

... Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

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

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

I don't lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.

I come from a highly moral family. I was very much taught what was right and wrong, and in my perception of things, I did something that was very wrong. To know that, and to then be so publicly exposed, was very hard.

Now I walk around with my head down, trying to hide, thinking that everybody knows that I inflicted people with HIV, because that is all they are going to read.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

I feel terrible about it. Part of it is the horror of what happened and part of it is my guilt about being a part of it.