When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings...

Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are...

You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It’s just one more physical sport we’re gonna stink at.

Guilt can teach us to become better; shame causes us to become bitter.” EL

morbid.

Regret piles up around us like books we have never read.

Tragische Schuld verkörpert sich im permanenten Konflikt zwischen der uralten religiösen Vorstellung von der Missetat als einer Beschmutzung, die einer ganzen Rasse anhaftet und unausweichlich von einer Generation auf die nächste vererbt wird […], und...

My needs were covered by layer upon layer of denial. I was scrambling for reasons. But the truth was, even if he had had a successful career, I would have used it as an excuse...

When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our...

Solitude is an interesting companion. It is both enemy and friend, comforter and tormentor. I spent a lot of time in Dun Cinzci’s meat locker trying to decide which. Fortunately, when I tired of solitude,...

I remembered my father telling me when I was a little girl, “Guilt is bullshit. Don’t ever let anyone make you feel guilty.

Complex PTSD consists of of six symptom clusters, which also have been described in terms of dissociation of personality. Of course, people who receive this diagnosis often also suffer from other problems as well, and...

Don’t let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future.

Let go of self-condemnation and guilt!

The funds were donated in full compliance with federal law and disclosed properly and publicly, but yesterday’s admission of guilt and improper actions warranted our action to make something positive come of all this by...

Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up with little time to take your last breath before being pulled under.

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her...

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

I think the governor’s finally admitted guilt, and he’s hoping to move on,

It’s exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

I am the who in whodunnit. But I am not the dunnit.

She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with....

If silence is the admission of guilt, then she must be really guilty, because last night I asked her a question and instead of answering, she went to sleep for eight hours.

Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an understanding of God. Jesus Christ said that when the Holy Spirit came He would convict...

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.

We drove down Corydon avenue towards my mother’s apartment. How are you doing, she asked me? Fine, fine, I said. I wanted to tell her that I felt I was dying from rage and that...

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in’t.

There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you’d not done!

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Your thoughts can torture you-but not the dead. They’ve moved on.

He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.

Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?

Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no matter what. Then, if you’re like me, when you just sit quietly, just...

There is overwhelming evidence of guilt in this case. … (He) confessed to the authorities on two separate occasions, and he fully admits he committed these crimes,

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.

I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

She opened a small silver compact and looked at her face in its mirror. I am still guiltless, she thought, I have not done it yet. But I will look the same when I have...

In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.

Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’t bring all their men home and wonder what they could have done differently to save them. When they get...

It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever realities there are around us, and which were meant by Heaven to be...

I don’t think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I’m lost in the music. Until I am the music–notes and chords, the melody and harmony....