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“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I...”
“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who set herself the task of falling in love with her husband bit-by-bit, but who could n ever ma...”
“In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.”
“Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.”
“There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.”
“I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burd...”
“A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.”
“Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. Its been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was.”
“Guilt loves the passive.”
“Although your decision to die is firm, your decision to become a god has caused you to suffer. You suffered, wondering why you couldn't cure Magdalia's illness, wondering why you weren't capable of...”
“Guilty people apologize and also take steps to avoid repetition. Shame, in contrast, is a more global emotion, which can emerge in response to the same kind of wrong act and violation of standards....”
“Blame and English SpeakersIn the same article, Boroditsky notes that in English, well often say that someone broke a vase even if it was an accident, but Spanish and Japanese speakers tend to say t...”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.”
“The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.”
“Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.”
“We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..”
“The back of my hand to guilt.”
“She was one of six people accused of the murder, five of hom took pleas; to had internalised their guilt so deeply that, aven after being freed, they still had vivid memories of committing the crime.”
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
