Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.’Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

Mother’s intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don’t imagine that she troubled herself to feel very guilty. But the Rev. Mr. Merrill was a man who took to wallowing in guilt; his remorse, after...

But I rather thought–I mean, I heard you’d killed Balder the Fair.””I never did,” snapped Loki crossly. “Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed...

celebration.

Expiating a sin does not mean doing something opposite to wallow in guilt, but to use that same guilt to achieve full knowledge of the sin. The fault lies more not in having committed certain...

Guilt doesn’t stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.

Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. ‘I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,’ we say, when in actual fact we...

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

I couldn’t begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried...

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.

How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?

How could a woman who had an abortion not feel guilt or some sense of remorse? How could she justify what she’d done? Whom else could she blame when everyone was telling her it’s her...

And much like the despairity of the woman who can never bear children, my dreams can never bear fruit. They are the mountains I can never climb.The hurdles I can never leap.The seas I can...

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?

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.