Guilt is a self-indulgence.

After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to...

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

I rushed to the bathroom for every corner of the hospital was suffocating. I got hold of acid-bottle, which was meant for toilet cleaning. As I took it into my hands, I realized I had...

Although your decision to die is firm, your decision to become a god has caused you to suffer. You suffered, wondering why you couldn’t cure Magdalia’s illness, wondering why you weren’t capable of saving her....

I have moments that aren’t too bad, but there’s always something I’m struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.

There are two kinds of guilt: the kind thatdrowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

I should have told.” The legacy of a helpless, vulnerable, out-of-control, and humiliated child creates an adult who is generally tentative, insecure, and quite angry. The anger is not often expressed, however, as it is...

When your out of space, your out of place at the same time.

Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.

Calvin : There’s no problem so awful, that you can’t add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

I don’t believe in a lot of baggage. It’s such a nuisance. Life’s too short to fuss with it. And it isn’t really necessary

The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there.

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!” EL

Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and thereby makes everyone nice. By denying sin, the nice people make a cure impossible. Sin is most serious, and the...

It’s funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.

Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos’s play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the House Absolute, so we have each of us in the dustiest...

Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of...

Sie wird gebraucht, unsere Schuld, sie rechtfertigt viel im Leben anderer.

Odakle dolazi dojam da je Crkva lakše izlazila na kraj s krivcima-počiniteljima negoli s nedužnim žrtvama? Nije li naša kristologija toliko pretjerano determinirana soteriološki da više niti ne dopušta teodicejsko pitanje (na koje se niti...

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.

The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I’m sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we...

Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!” schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen.

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of a grave will sometimes sequester themselves from the general population of the churchyard,...

Tolstoy said, ‘The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.’ Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our...

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

Sometimes to escape the noise of haunting memories, you need your best friends hand in your own, to help erase the sound and fill you with a sense of peace, even if it’s temporary.

Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself.

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted...

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.

I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves...

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

Behjet eased the horse forward again. “The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn’t stop – not even hay.”The rain. The rain she’d been so grateful for, the...

In the end, I sold my soul.” he had said, and Abby had replied “That wasn’t the end.

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

But when we make choices that are different than what our friends are doing, it might seem to them that we are questioning their choices – even if it has nothing to do with them…....

Give me your past, all your pain, all your anger, all your guilt. Release it to me, and I will be a safe harbor for the life you need to leave behind.

As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it.

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don’t feel too guilty about it later.

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence.

Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead… but you know what? It wouldn’t change anything. All I can do now that...

There were eleven votes for “guilty.” It’s not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me.

None of us do. That’s not up to us. We have to decide what we’re going to do with what we’re given. Play the cards dealt to us.

What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of...

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a dagger.

The past is but an untraceable footfallIt appears in intervals and pushes us back in time,In those moments of grief and then suddenly vanishes.It’s often dark and ruthless.It baffles our thoughts and seizes our peace...