Nature Quote by Laurens van der Post

“Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy.”

— Ama Ata Aidoo

“there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation.”

— Frederick Forsyth

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt…

— Gregory Maguire

“It’s the only thing that keeps us from despair when we look at what humans have done to the world.”

— Rick Riordan

“Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“We therefore need to be patient with ourselves, and look upon our sense of guilt as Witnesses!”

— Frank M. Wanderer

“...we pretend to be grown up and responsible; we are so proud and self-assured--and look at the result. The world lies in bomb dust…

— Alfred Delp

“In coping with the world, we come to identify only with our compensatory selves and our reactive minds. We build up our selves out…

— Mark Epstein

“The false world is full of illusions and misery.”

— Bryant McGill