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“If there was one thing Sam understood, it was guilt. It didn't have to be logical; oftentimes it wasn't. Itsawed at your gut relentlessly, tediously, until you wore it like a scar.”
“No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, w...”
“Hello." The doctor speaks softly, nervously. Mr White doesn't respond, not even the slightest change of expression. Dr Archer has been thinking. Mulling it over in his head, endlessly, driving hims...”
“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”
“Let go of self-condemnation and guilt!”
“One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.”
“There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal gui...”
“Morrigan "What are guilt ferrets:"Atticus "They're bastards. They cling to your neck and tickle and bite and generally make you miserable, which is a pretty good trick for a metaphor." They were al...”
“Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life ...”
“Enough of this guilt," he told her, his voice reduced to a cracked whisper. "What's done is done.”
“Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.”
“My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit.”
“There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.”
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
“I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!”
“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.”
“Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.”
“Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over th...”
“Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.”
“Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.”
