Children Quote by Gregory Maguire

“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo.”

— Neal Shusterman

“For the fact is that there is no humiliation so great that one should not accept it with unconcern, knowing that at the end…

— Marcel Proust

“I saw the world and its lack of compassion, its harsh, grating judgment, and its cold, resentful eyes.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“I believe that most of us construct a merciful deception between ourselves and the consequences of our existence in order that we do not…

— Patricia J. McLean

“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

“People see what they want see and understand what only they can understand. Leave aside the guilt and the blame; no man could think,…

— Mircea Popister

“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

“There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be…

— Orison Swett Marden

“The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…”

— Thomas Pynchon

“It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know…

— Teresa of Ávila

“It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!...…

— James Cameron