“My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Enough of this guilt," he told her, his voice reduced to a cracked whisper. "What's done is done.” — Alexis Steinhauer Copy Share Image
No amount of guilt can solve the past & No amount of anxiety can change the future — Ananymous Copy Share Image
Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful. — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT! — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“I felt as if each kiss was tainting her with the venom of my guilt. As if she could taste the truth… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Email is just the most obvious manifestation of a much bigger issue: the 24/7 work culture and its associated feelings of responsibility… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as… — Hedy Lamarr Copy Share Image
“Religious guilt causes people to deny their behavior even as they engage in it. Guilt short-circuits rational examination of behavior in favor… — ED.D Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes.… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Since our awareness of others is considered our duty, the price we pay when things go wrong is guilt and self-hatred. And… — Nancy Chodorow Copy Share Image
Should've thought of that before you told my ex-girlfriend I eat live kittens for breakfast." A tiny twinge of guilt. Then the… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
A dirty conscience should not be ignored, but rather investigated. False guilt is an indication of a faulty belief. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
“You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at.” — Jaffe Cohen Copy Share Image
Just because your your girlfriend period is on that doesn't give you an excuse to have sex with anyone else! — Keondre Keyy Copy Share Image
Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt. — Leo Baeck Copy Share Image
I don't feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt. — Ted Bundy Copy Share Image
“Okay. I will go. But only if you will give me your guilt to take with me.” — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.” — Eileen Wilks Copy Share Image
Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt. — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves. — Ursula Burns Copy Share Image
“But I've seen enough to know that we all carry a measure of guilt and innocence among us.” — David Carr Copy Share Image
“Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?” — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“We all know the feeling of being torn away from those we love most because of sin and guilt.” — Jim C. Cunningham Copy Share Image