“Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up… — Andrea Randall Copy Share Image
“Though, the type of abuse differs from each individual, all survivors of child abuse deal with a certain extent of trauma, consciously… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty.… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I went to an arts high school and was surrounded by drama students who dreamed of working in the industry. I almost… — Hunter Schafer Copy Share Image
“While guilt over sinfulness can often lead to repentance, shame leads to indifference, intolerance, lack of vulnerability, and lack of intimacy with… — Tyler Braun Copy Share Image
The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our… — Krishna Das Copy Share Image
My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its… — Njabulo S Ndebele Copy Share Image
“There's something I never told you about that decision I made four years ago...I've never felt a middle ground between acceptance and… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“And if we all have shame, the good news is that we’re all capable of developing shame resilience. Shame resilience is the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
We can think about how we reduce the pain in paying. So, for example, credit cards are wonderful mechanisms to reduce the… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“Omul este fiinta care aspira catre Arta prin vis. Unica si ultima lui implinire este aceea de a i se permite sa… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Aspects of guilt or handwringing that one might expect in a film set in the '50s about women who discover their love… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Guilt was—it was the agony of spirit that made every day bleak. The fear that you might not live up to the… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
In the case of 'The Housewives,' I call the 'Housewives' sociology of the rich. I think it's just fun to watch. It's… — Andy Cohen Copy Share Image
Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than… — Marshall B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“genuinely righteous people invariably become more aware of their personal guilt and need for forgiveness than those who have become so foul… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but… — Kate Siegel Copy Share Image
We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
“It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own… — S.J. Parris Copy Share Image
Never feel guilty. Don't hold yourself back by guilt or fear. No other species in the entire world deals with guilt. Guilt… — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
“Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good; it ruins the lives of everyone else. It’s a selfish thing to… — Jake Adelstein Copy Share Image
“Christianity is constantly in danger of being hijacked by people who act out in hatred - by people who will not even… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I had a girlfriend when I was 17-18, and when she was 21, she wanted us to get married. I couldn't do… — Suresh Raina Copy Share Image
“Abused children often learn to block out their pain, for it is too distressing. Since it’s not possible to block emotions selectively,… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The past cannot be changed, no matter how you feel about it. Wrong done neither alter the past nor make you a… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
We're in this together, right?" he whispers. "You and me? You want to be here, yeah?" There's guilt in his questions. "Yes,"… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
“Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image