Guilt Quote by William S. Burroughs

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

— Judith Viorst

“She wished, fleetingly, that her mother was not her mother, and for this she felt not guilt and sadness but a single emotion, a…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal herbs and sell them to her shop to…

— Suzanne Collins

“Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had finally dulled…

— Ron Rash

“I lost my mother when I was three years old. She had some small injury – a piece of metal pierced her foot –…

— William Dalrymple

“I had spent the last two weeks consumed with my mother’s condition, at her side for many hours every day, living in a soup…

— Jane Gross

“My mother's suffering grew into as symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful, baffling, hunger-ridden…

— Richard Wright

“My mother's story continues to haunt me, it will until the day I die. My guilt and personal anguish is a good thing. It…

— M.J. Burke Sr

“Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bear one more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the end…

— Jason Shinder

“A Toast to Mother’s Day When my daughter was in preschool she made a mother’s day card for me. The teachers were very good…

— Michelle Kunz

“I began for the first time to really understand the loss my adoptive mother must have felt from not having her own child. I…

— Zara Phillips

“I think about all the people I need to forgive. My mother for not saying she loves me? We're too often guilty of thinking…

— Steven Rowley