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“...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.”
“He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from...”
“This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.”
“Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. It’s been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was.”
“But until that happens -- and however brief a life, it will take a while -- there is a terrible, hateful interlude that belongs to us alone, and during which we have no alternative but to cope with...”
“Guilt rarely listens to reason ...”
“I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.”
“When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror stricken. He had the impression that the whole view had turned into eyes that reproached him.”
“What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.”
“Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in’t.”
“In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.”
“his conscience washed clean by happiness.”
“So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about.”
“Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.”
“Guilt was its own prison.”
“I should have forgiven him.”“Maybe. Maybe there’s more we all could have done,” he says, “but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.”I frown and pull back. That is a lesson...”
“Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.”
“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.”
“Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.”
“Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty ...”
