Regret Quote by Frances Perkins

“Accidents and sicknesses are accepted as deserved retribution by the person who has feelings of guilt”

— Sunday Adelaja

“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

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

— Deepak Chopra

“The idea was that if we did such things, we would see that the worst that could happen was usually not so bad, and…

— Dr Ameisen Olivier

“The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.”

— Ayn Rand

“Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a…

— Paul Auster

“I was angry about injustice--about the uncaring way the world works. I knew a lot of ordinary people had died that day, not because…

— Terry Hayes

“I felt we were "falling through the cracks;” society’s anonymous victims who would live and die in unacknowledged misery...”

— Misty Griffin

“Tragedy did that—brought people together in ways you could never force.”

— Nancy Naigle

“It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway. Knowing something is…

— Lemony Snicket

“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury…

— Mary Shelley

“We lost our courage as a people. Sure, some people still had it, but as a people, as a group where we all had…

— Rick Wiedeman