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...

As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn’t help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours.

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world...

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.

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Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

I’m on a diet I plan to lose Guilt, Fear, Sin, and Doubt then I’ll be confident enough to walk about.

[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of...

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like ‘wormwood and gall’), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God’s love, new every morning. God’s mercy...

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the...

God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through...

A man in loss is not a man to trust.

You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone’s poor choices.

Just the guilt of the unborn babies is enough. Also, I have asthma and if I get sick, it becomes double pneumonia. The doctor warned me it’s getting serious either sell the cafe or die...

The scene is most beautiful without people in it. People just screw things up. Forget the whole thing, the world, all the living people, I tell myself, and it has a ring of truth to...

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin.

Is it I, Lord” (Matt. 26:22).

Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

associated with the fear of exposing one’s defective self to others. Guilt, on the other hand, is associated with the fear of not living up to one’s own standards.” In this formulation, guilt is based...

I feel guilty when I feed them unhealthy food they like. I feel guilty when I feed them healthy food they don’t like. I feel guilty when I drop them off at school. I feel...

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.