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

—Anthony de Mello

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GuiltSin
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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...

—Criss Jami

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AbnormalCultural-GuiltCulture
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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.

—Bobby Adair

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GuiltLossOverthinking
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The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

—Ayn Rand

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AcceptGuiltWorst
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This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

—Atul Gawande

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GuiltShame
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Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.

—Geoffrey Wood

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Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond’s shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

—Ian Fleming

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Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself.

—Idries Shah

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His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of the drowned man. Conscience played no part in his terrors, and he had not the slightest regret about killing...

—Émile Zola

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GuiltMurderRemorse
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Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we’ve violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret—regret is useless.

—Daniel Smith

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I lie awake in my bed, clinging to the brightness I have known, fighting back the tide of darkness, the memories of blood and branding and horror, and the legacy of cruelty that runs in...

—Jacqueline Carey

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It’s not about people believing the story. It’s about you knowing and holding it to be true.

—Joan Ambu

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trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he’s blamed himself for introducing...

—Laurell K.

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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife’s feelings and deprive his...

—P.D. James

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We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

—Rachel Held

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The most common lie uttered without thought, sincerity, resolve, or guilt: I love you.

—Richelle E.

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People who excuse their faults and claim they didn’t deserved to be punished – there are lots of them. But those who don’t excuse their faults and admit they didn’t deserve to be spared –...

—Zhuangzi

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If you’ve had the right kind of education, it’s amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

—Pete McCarthy

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The question shouldn’t be, ‘Are we guilty about our Colonial past?’ it should be, ‘Why aren’t we more guilty about our corporate present?

—Sara Sheridan

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Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I’m starting to understand that attempting to be perfect has been the goal of my life. Our lives. Attempting to be this fault-free, smiling person in this loving, happy family that fits so perfectly in...

—Abigail Tarttelin

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Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

—Captain Beefheart

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GuiltModernRock
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People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame,...

—David Mitchell

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It takes more courage to be yourself than to live in the prison of ego with feelings of guilt. It takes a lot more courage to be happy than to be unhappy.

—Human Angels

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This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn’t keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes

—Hiro Mashima

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He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution.

—Devon Trevarrow

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Guilt
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She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her.

—Emily Arden

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I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable.I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave...

—James Frey

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The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit...

—Ernst Jünger

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Guilt isn’t always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

—Maureen Johnson

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Guilt
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…one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

—Jodi Picoult

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You know what my father said about innocent clients? … He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it’ll...

—Michael Connelly

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Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who set herself the task of falling in love with her husband bit-by-bit, but...

—Salman Rushdie

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And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don’t...

—Michelle Hodkin

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It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the...

—Umberto Eco

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He was clearly not the murderer whom Hawksmoor was seeking, but it was generally the innocent who confessed: in the course of many enquiries, Hawksmoor had come across those who accused themselves of crimes which...

—Peter Ackroyd

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Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

—Titus Maccius

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We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or...

—Anna Godbersen

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It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. “I’ll take the shoes,” she said firmly.

—Alexander McCall Smith

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Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress. Don’t fall for it, my dear.

—Elizabeth Gilbert

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I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

—Criss Jami

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Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

—Evan Esar

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I, however, have really never been anywhere yet, not because some sins or other could wrap themselves around me there, but because I’d rather sin at home, where God even announces the weather to me...

—Elfriede Jelinek

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GuiltSin
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She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hands are clutched around the opposing wrists, nails digging in deep, hard, scratching. Pain to replace pain.

—Jasinda Wilder

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I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.

—Donna Lynn

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AloneDarkGuilt
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If people ever question your loyalty, you never had theirs.

—Justin K.

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That’s the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you...

—Marilynne Robinson

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GuiltLifeLoneliness
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Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.

—Jennifer Birkett

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You look good in a nun’s suit,” I said. It was a stupid thing to say, but I meant well by it. She looked down at the black robe as if she were seeing it...

—John William Tuohy

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