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...

But what were you supposed to do with that weight? Once it was on you? Just be a man? Just suck it up? Maybe you were. Maybe that was the real test. Maybe that is...

No one blames her.””That never matters,” said Alec. “Not when you blame yourself.

You don’t say ‘they all do it’ unless you know you’ve been doing it too.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

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...

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.

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.

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 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.