Death Quote by Marilynne Robinson

“The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.”

— Mary Shelley

“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

“Grief can put all kinds of regret into focus.”

— Abby Slovin

“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

“I have faced many moments of despair, thank God who relieved me from distress.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“We need guilt the same way we need pain—because it reminds us what happened, and it helps us not to do it again.”

— Dan Wells

“Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. Just when everything seems over with, new forces come marching up, and precisely…

— Franz Kafka

“When all hope was gone, they heeded the counsels of despair. Had they continued to strive, defying their doom, some unforseen wonder might have…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

“And somewhere in between then and now irony slipped its way into my vocabulary. Laughter became the antidote for guilt. Sacrifice grew to be…

— Sarah Kay

“I could be the faultless victim of a freak accident and be knocked from the game while still on the ascendant. Becoming the object…

— David Foster Wallace

“I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when…

— Michael Ignatieff

“Your sorrow is the inevitable result of circumstances beyond your control,”

— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross