Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant and as such, is full of ideas of vengeance;… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt,… — William James Copy Share Image
Those who will repent and forsake sin will find that His merciful arm is outstretched still. Those who listen to and heed… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his… — Jonathan Stroud Copy Share Image
“Do not expect me to apologize for going what I had to, to survive. A lion doesn't feel guilty for eating a… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
Conscious virtue is the only solid foundation of all happiness; for riches, power, rank, or whatever, in the common acceptation ofthe word,… — Lord Chesterfield 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
Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that. — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One day youll look back and realize how you treated me and maybe, if you finally grew up you might actually feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You're an asshole, you know that, Haller?" I nodded and headed back to the door. "When I need to be.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I have never felt guilt, as such, when absent from my children due to work. Work is essential. I may not always… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
