Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
I didn't have anything to apologize for.
Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.
Guilt only dreads Liberty of Speech, which drags it out of its lurking Holes, and exposes its Deformity and Horror to Day-light.
Marcus Porcius Cato
… concessions to adversaries only end in self-reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided, the greater will be the chance of security
OK, I'm as lazy as the next guy. Full disclosure. And I often feel guilty about it.
I hate the human race. Of course, therefore, I hate myself the most, because I am the least of the human race.
I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!
He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.
Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.
I've got some repenting to do.
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.
What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.
Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.
I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
The reality is almost everything I do I cringe about later.
A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.
I apologize for nothing.
