Regret Quote by Pepper Winters

“The idea was that if we did such things, we would see that the worst that could happen was usually not so bad, and…

— Dr Ameisen Olivier

“The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we…

— Michelle Tea

“We would often be ashamed of our best actions if the world only knew the motives behind them.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I never acted out of guilt, I just couldn't live in a world where you don't exist.”

— Edward in New Moon

“Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“...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

“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

“I think shame is the most profound of all emotions; I think the world is ruled by shame.”

— J.R. Salamanca

“Blaming our actions rather than our character allows us to feel guilt instead of shame.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”

— Milan Kundera

“We cared about the fact that for the first time, we didn’t have to pretend to be something we weren’t. We just got to…

— Seanan McGuire