In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Never fight on the wrong side; you might win but the burden of guilt is more than a loss. — Lilian Salan Copy Share Image
I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt. — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. — Blake Edwards Copy Share Image
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt. — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due… — George Kaiser Copy Share Image
Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportunities that will change your life. Expect… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
Music keeps you eternally young. It just does. What I love about it now is touring without the guilt. Now it's like… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows… — Horace Copy Share Image
I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish… — Paul Ekman Copy Share Image
Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image