1,201 Quotes About Guilt

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5)

The abandonment I suffered from my parents created a neural pathway that sends me into massive self-victimization.

He did not like the thought that he was to blame, but the only alternative he could think of to explain their behavior was much worse: that all the love and attention his parents had given him before had somehow been the result of George’s presence, and with George gone there was nothing for him … and all of that had happened at random, for no reason at all. And if you put your ear to that door, you could hear the winds of madness blowing outside.

The existence of guilty sense is soimportant in education and religion.

We carry sin around until the weight of it brings us to our knees.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them.

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it.

How did it happen?”There was a piece of me that shouted its alarm: if you speak he will turn gray and hate you. But I pushed past it. If he turned gray, then he did. I would not go on anymore weaving my cloths by day and unraveling them again at night, making nothing. I told him the whole tale of it, each jealousy and folly and all the lives that had been lost because of me.