Avoiding Quote by Gever Tulley

“But guilt is about as useful as regret, since neither do anything to set things right.”

— Ken Lange

“Guilt is the only affect I know of that does not diminish with time. Nor does the guilty conscience have any sense of priority…

— John Banville

“The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.”

— Lisa Scottoline

“Guilt doesn’t have to make sense; it just is.”

— Dot Hutchison

“Guilt is like a sore, endlessly fascinating, and the guilty party feels compelled to examine it and pick at it, so that it never…

— Stephen King

“Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion”

— Lynn Crilly

“Guilt is felt by not only the guilty, but more so by those who feel they deserve it when in fact, they don’t. Guilt…

— K.M. Golland

“Guilt’s just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking that you’re making moral progress.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

“Guilt requires absolution”

— Lauren Oliver

“When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

— Audre Lorde