It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“The Christian soul knows it needs Divine Help and therefore turns to Him Who loved us even while we were yet sinners.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I felt like I needed to comfort both the little girl inside me and my mother, assuring them that neither of them… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“- Oscar Wilde said that we always destroy the thing we love the most. And it is true. The simple possibility of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Stop beating yourself up for making those past mistakes. We may love the wrong person and cry about the wrong things, but… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Here, in Lorrain's poisoned little jewel of a tale (“The Man Who Made Wax Heads”) the consummate achievement of decadent art is… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
“Sorry, I thought I saw a guilt trip looming up,’ said Clements. ‘I had a Catholic upbringing - spent a week in… — Ken McClure Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“It is not lies or a lack of loyalty that ends a relationship. It is the agonizing truth that one person feels… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The same hand that stilled the seas stills your guilt. The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses your heart. The hand… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
If you harbor resentment, pain or hurt feelings over something that happened in your past or perhaps you inflected harm on someone,… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to apologize, Megan,” Regina said, sinking into the chair across from hers. “I never asked you if you were… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
“They are an American Delegation who are doing a tour of the region to apologize for the crusades', said Arafat. Then he,… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
We can feel guilt for our slightest slip-ups or misdoings. We sense that we deserve our guilt because we have allegedly done… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Being poor with three small children is terrifying. You can't make any plans. You know you're not going on holiday, ever. There's… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds… — Elizabeth Carter Copy Share Image
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because… — Koushun Takami Copy Share Image
One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon… — Maureen Brady Copy Share Image
It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The first chapters of the Bible tell us of the sin of man. The guilt of that sin had rested upon every… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t ready for the guilt of being a parent. I was raised Catholic, so guilt is a familiar friend. Guilt is… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“He was not going to move on until she let go of him, of her guilt. And that was one thing she… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
