“Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to… — Michelle Sagara West Copy Share Image
Guilt is a natural emotion that comes as a result of the person doing something that is against his or her values.… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“People in great need were quick to find blame in themselves, quick to assume the burden of guilt for things they in… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
The law is not known, since there is nothing in it to know. We come across it only through its action, and… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the picture.' If you… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Objectification is a critical reason why an abuser tends to get worse over time. As his conscience adapts to one level of… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“...and I want nothing more than to wrap myself around him and be carried away to a place where I don't have… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
“Yet each disappointment Ted felt in his wife, each incremental deflation, was accompanied by a seizure of guilt; many years ago, he… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Complex PTSD consists of of six symptom clusters, which also have been described in terms of dissociation of personality. Of course, people… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Changes in Relationship with others: It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
Whenever I feel mom-guilt, or I feel pressure to be a better mom - to cook salmon on a bed of quinoa… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
My life has always been wrapped around anger, sorrow, guilt, shame, getting even, sin, drugs, alcohol, self harm, suicidal thought. But when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Funny thing about guilt: There's nothing so bad that you can't add a little guilt to it and make it worse; and… — C. Jay Cox Copy Share Image
“Complaints of feeling cut off, shut off, out of touch, feeling apart or strange, of things being out of focus or unreal,… — Harry Guntrip Copy Share Image
“I hate that I am my worst self around the two people who are the nicest to me. I’m unable to keep… — Allison Raskin Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret,… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“He wondered if this, more than guilt, was what had been holding him back. It wasn't that he was punishing himself as… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
