You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Drowning in my guilt just slit my throat with your knife and let the blood poor and tilt , Pouring into a… — Sleepy Himself Copy Share Image
Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Soon she'd spot the bruise behind the inflection. I blamed her for not seeing the bruise so I wouldn't be blamed for… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“Healthy shame is the psychological foundation of humility. It is the source of spirituality. What I discovered was that shame as a… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Toxic shame, with its more-than-human, less-than-human polarization, is either inhuman or dehumanizing. The demand for a false self to cover and hide… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion. In fact, that was - at the very beginning of this process, we… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“A black bird of guilt hovers over the death of a man, waiting to perch where it may find room in the… — Don Berry Copy Share Image
Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists,… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
The Proud Boys are over race. We don't talk about - we talk about race if you want to talk about it,… — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous! — John Suckling Copy Share Image
Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The question shouldn't be 'Are we guilty about our colonial past;' it should be 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I felt like I was being eaten alive by guilt, and what I needed what your patience and your kindness, not for… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
“What’s your point, Legal?” “The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“There are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“One thing I’ve learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the… — Gabriel Fackre Copy Share Image
The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“Though he felt a little guilt over disappearing, it wasn't even guilt, just sadness over not even wanting to call her.” — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as… — Thomas Francis Meagher Copy Share Image
Those who are constantly accusing their partners of cheating are often the ones who are doing the dirty deed themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Neglect transpires when the accountable adult fails to provide sufficiently for the needs of a child. It may be deliberate and conscious… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Because I’ve lived with pain, guilt and horror before. I know how it feels to be trapped in it. You’re not a… — Chelsea Camaron Copy Share Image
“Manipulation is majorly at play in sexual abuse. The kid is in full control, influenced, used completely for one’s advantage, to work… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
The first thing I'd say to women is put aside the guilt. I think we're all genetically programmed to feel guilty for… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
Police on the street need the discretion to deal quickly and easily with routine misdemeanours which need to be recorded but need… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
“I didn't even try to explain to him what I was seeing, the fine spreading web through which we had all tugged… — Tana French Copy Share Image
