Quote by Nathanael West

“His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain…

— Robert Girardi

“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

“He had been guilty once or twice of believing he understood, only to discover he did not... There were times, he saw, when not…

— Rachel Joyce

“I wish I were a rock,' he said, and he became a rock.”

— William Steig

“...but he was incapable of shame.He had no conscience or soul.No heart, either.That has broken and died years ago.The leftover pieces had petrified in…

— Charlotte Featherstone

“Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.”

— Eileen Wilks

“He was going through a hundred different emotions that must have been plain on his face. His body, however, showed only one emotion: rock…

— Ron Jockman

“The days after that, I felt so many different things, sad, angry. Guilty, but for the mostly just numb, like part of me was…

— Alex Flinn

“I felt guilty. I hated feeling fucking guilty”

— Bry Ann

“he could feel the earth beneath, all the deep stone of it, cool and hard near the surface of the earth, but hotter and…

— Orson Scott Card

“Things seemed to consist not of wood and stone but of some grandiose and infinitely tender immorality that, the moment it came in contact…

— Robert Musil

“there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead.”

— Lori Brighton