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Guilt Quotes by Ernest Becker
- Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.
- Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
- If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even…
- Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.
- Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude - even dishonor and betrayal- to real possibility? This may not seem to be…
More Guilt Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. — Saint Augustine
- Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. — Jane Austen
- I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. — John Adams
- Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a… — Simone de Beauvoir
- Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. — Martha Beck
- A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. — Aeschylus
- Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. — Erma Bombeck
- I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star. — Unknown Author
- Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the… — Omar N. Bradley