“I didn't even try to explain to him what I was seeing, the fine spreading web through which we had all tugged… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there… — Paddy Ashdown Copy Share Image
“It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“She opened a small silver compact and looked at her face in its mirror. I am still guiltless, she thought, I have… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Look, I don't know who has been telling you over the years that you aren't worthy of love and happiness, but they're… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“Shame is paralyzing and debilitating. It invites us not to be heard, at least not in an authentic way. Acting courageously when… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Our aim - our only aim - is to be at home in Christ. He's not a roadside park or hotel room.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Guilt is an outward expression of self degradation. It is acceptance of one’s culpability, indiscretion, liability, sin, dereliction, and harm without resolving… — Deborah Bravandt Copy Share Image
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood, and the hysterical parents, and the guilt, or any of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, I suffer kind of from survivor's guilt. It's like you suffer from success because you feel like - why me?… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
“No one else could see all the bodies she’d left behind, but they were there, looking at her. Or maybe that was… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It's regret, that really is the worst kind of pain, yeah guilt is bad, and sadness is bad, but regret is the… — Bernajoy Vaal Copy Share Image
“Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.” — Peter N. Stearns Copy Share Image
One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I felt ashamed while saying Bulla's dialogues! There was a mixed feeling of shame and guilt, and I constantly questioned myself why… — Mukesh Rishi Copy Share Image
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
“God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
I started to admit vulnerabilities and things that I was trying to hide before. Shyness, anxiety, guilt and all those things that… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification… — Marlene Dumas Copy Share Image
It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The rest of the time he entertained all the guilt that wished to call, carried in by the wind through the darkness,… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt,… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“His death was something she felt she would never get over, and this, coupled with the guilt that she was responsible for… — Robert Bryndza Copy Share Image
Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ...… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as… — Merle Fossum Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The feeling I have for her has ruined our friendship.Now,she won't talk to me and even look at me.I'm an idiot!!!If I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
