Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I once tried to figure out the first time I felt guilt, and it goes so far back that I might have… — Lee Marvin Copy Share Image
Sex is where you find it. I say take it and enjoy it. Give and receive freely, without fear, without guilt and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or… — Herb Goldberg Copy Share Image
“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“I always thought saying sorry was more about alleviating guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for the ears.” — Swati Avasthi Copy Share Image
The small man thinks that small acts of goodness are of no benefit, and does not do them; and that small deeds… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Criminal trials are fundamentally about individual accountability whereas truth commissions are less about the guilt of the perpetrator and more about the… — Payam Akhavan Copy Share Image
“We are all of us exposed to grief: the people we love die, as we shall ourselves in due course; expectations are… — Charles Le Gai Eaton Copy Share Image
Nor is the guilt entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats and demagogues. If people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name, they deserve… — Jack Parsons Copy Share Image
I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, "Don't punish yourself. You're going to be a student… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
“He's following me... He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Just say it. If after you say it and it doesn’t feel right, then deal with that, but if you hold that… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
If a child had another disease, we'd be open about what we were going through, but addiction is stigmatised and comes with… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all… — Ellie Krieger Copy Share Image
If you impose morality on people, they will find ways to circumvent their guilt. They will make offerings to temples - or… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The… — David Simon Copy Share Image
We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A lie is still a lie, regardless of the reason behind it. You can say you did it for a good cause… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After all, life is a voyage, and you cannot start out this voyage all over once more. You need to be in… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Grief made people guilty. Guilty for being five minutes late, for taking the wrong streetcar, for ignoring a couph or sleeping too… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven.… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought. — Kenneth L. Woodward Copy Share Image
The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
One part of love is innocence One part of love is guilt One part the milk that in a sense Is soured… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
