If there was one thing Sam understood, it was guilt. It…

“That's the way some people do business." "I don't." It was the tone that made Ty stop. He supposed somehow over the past months…

— Nora Roberts

A lot of the guilt didn't help my drinking at that point. I never expected a divorce to happen in my life particularly, but…

— Dick Van Dyke

“Margot suspects Sam has never understood her chronic unease, her relationship to difficulty--he who can drink all night with louche grace and never wind…

— Laura van den Berg

“No, thanks,’ said Sam, who had never understood why he often refused drinks he would have liked to accept.”

— Sophie Hannah

“Murderers with severe personality disorders, police had learned, sometimes could fool a lie detector because they lacked shame and guilt, and didn’t feel the…

— Michael Benson

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.

— Leonore Fleischer

“To me, the words “food” and “guilt” didn’t belong in the same sentence unless, say, you were referring to how you felt about the…

— Kate Madison

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Ask yourself something. Have you ever thought about why guys want you gone the next day? It’s not because they’ve got things to do,…

— Fisher Amelie

Regrets are just a way for the foolish and the guilty to pass the time

— Gensoumaden Saiyuki

But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,…

— Dean Koontz

“Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would…

— John Piper

When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.…

— Henry Allen Ironside

“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than…

— Gabor Maté

Never fight on the wrong side; you might win but the burden of guilt is more than a loss.

— Lilian Salan