Childhood Quote by Amitava Kumar

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This…

— Alice Miller

The concept of guilt is found most powerfully developed even in the most primitive communal forms which we know... the man is guilty who…

— Martin Buber

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the…

— Naomi Benaron

Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as…

— Michael Grant

“Guilt is the greatest monster. Remorse, a killer. But the worst are the memories. Yet sometimes, they are the only things that keep our…

— Melina Marchetta

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in…

— Penelope Leach

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe…

— Samuel Johnson

A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

— Ann Dunham

“Child, people always look for guilt outside themselves. A person chooses the role of the victim.”

— Johanna Verweerd

“I remembered my father telling me when I was a little girl, "Guilt is bullshit. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty.”

— Kaylie Jones

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

— Horace Bushnell

“Guilt was—it was the agony of spirit that made every day bleak. The fear that you might not live up to the cost of…

— Charles Todd