288 quotes found
“I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity.”
“Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.”
“Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhere at the lowest level of the House Absolute, so we have each of us in the dustiest cellars of ou...”
“We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.”
“Pages burnt, memories buried, I wakeor think I'm awake. Or dreaming still?”
“Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.”
“Sometimes "No" is the kindest word.”
“Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everything in the world is insignificant compared to the truth and purity of one smal...”
“A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly.”
“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned th...”
“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 tho...”
“That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell ...”
“That was all he wanted for himself to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.”
“At this point, I can no longer avoid setting out, in an initial, provisional statement, my own hypothesis about the origin of bad conscience. It is not easy to get people to attend to it, and it re...”
“Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?”
“Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.”
“A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored.”
“Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you dont make a u-turn.”
“Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.”
“I feel guilty when I feed them unhealthy food they like. I feel guilty when I feed them healthy food they dont like. I feel guilty when I drop them off at school. I feel guilty when I pick them up ...”
