“But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. And perhaps we are responsible even for… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
Hollywood has successfully produced many films framed by anti-racist or pro-integrationist story lines. I'm going to guess that since 'Gone With The… — Joe Morton Copy Share Image
I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret,… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
“He wondered if this, more than guilt, was what had been holding him back. It wasn't that he was punishing himself as… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
In the dream of approaching forty I saw myself as about to die and realized that I was no longer myself, but… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
“I hate that I am my worst self around the two people who are the nicest to me. I’m unable to keep… — Allison Raskin Copy Share Image
“I considered the northern white stance against slavery. How much of the desire to end the institution was fueled by a need… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
My life has always been wrapped around anger, sorrow, guilt, shame, getting even, sin, drugs, alcohol, self harm, suicidal thought. But when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Complaints of feeling cut off, shut off, out of touch, feeling apart or strange, of things being out of focus or unreal,… — Harry Guntrip Copy Share Image
“Funny thing about guilt: There's nothing so bad that you can't add a little guilt to it and make it worse; and… — C. Jay Cox Copy Share Image
She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I’m your worst nightmare come to walk this side of the lines. I’m an elf, Trent something you’re forgotten how to be.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Only at the cross of Christ does man see fully what it is that separates him from God; yet it is here… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
“Yes, I felt guilt. Somehow I had pushed Fand to the precipice without realizing it, and had I not been so blind,… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I had no one to point at. Certainly not my parents, because I had nothing to accuse them of. The zeal for… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I think the important thing about staying creative and staying sharp and original is not to look back too much, and to… — Wes Craven Copy Share Image
“The agony of this chronic stage of being cannot be endured for long. At the deepest level, toxic shame triggers our basic… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“He does not know what caused him to break off from Weston and walk out. Perhaps it was when the boy said… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Is it now a crime for someone falsely accused to be upset about it? Mueller presumes guilt and then refuses to 'exonerate'… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt,… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She wanted to tell him what happened wasn't really his fault, but she knew that wasn't the way this kind of guilt… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I believe we all have lists of shame. Long lists. We live with our constellation of shames quite privately. But they weigh… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
I actually want to hold on to where I came from, and also I want to be at this bar in Brooklyn,… — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
Until you go through with it yourself, you simply can't imagine it. But it is the transition of going back to work… — Phoebe Philo Copy Share Image
