Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left… — Elena Ferrante Copy Share Image
Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone. — Harriet Morgan Copy Share Image
“But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There are far too many self esteem problems in the world as it is. No sense taking on plant guilt, too. — Janet Macunovich Copy Share Image
never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. — Natalie Wood Copy Share Image
“I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man’s chest.” — Kristen Hope Mazzola Copy Share Image
My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to… — Teri Hatcher Copy Share Image
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their… — Ellen Page Copy Share Image
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach,… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
“When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn’t want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
“As we will see, there are many different ways that the mere act of talking to the police can get you in… — James Duane Copy Share Image
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of… — Thomas De Quincey Copy Share Image
Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists,… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary"… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
“Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop… — Erin Bow Copy Share Image
If you look at the New Testament, it's a gospel of love. Yes, there's talk of judgement and there's talk of heaven… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“A black bird of guilt hovers over the death of a man, waiting to perch where it may find room in the… — Don Berry Copy Share Image
“Healthy shame is the psychological foundation of humility. It is the source of spirituality. What I discovered was that shame as a… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone's poor choices.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. — Horace Copy Share Image
“We require to get out of our own built up Cocoons, these need to be worn, softened and freed through.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
In a court of law, you're innocent until proven guilty. In a relationship, you're guilty until proven innocent! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Don't let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future.” — Todd Stocker Copy Share Image
But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent! — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“The god she could outrun, but the guilt was already catching up to her.” — J-F Dubeau Copy Share Image
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards. — Arca Copy Share Image
“The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
