guilt

And guilt is heavy, like an anchor holding me in place and hindering any and all advancement.

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart.

Our society cultivates guilt feelings in women such that many of us still feel guilty if we are anything less than an emotional service station to others.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

Never under estimate the power of guilt, in the end it will find its way to destroy you. The more you try to turn your back on it, the easier it is for it to stab you in the back.

Just because you act a little guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.

My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the loss of Lesley. Without her observance, and her sturdy presence, I would feel windblown.

But some mistakes can never be righted and the guilt eats away at the soul. Of all the emotions we have, I have learnt that guilt is the most corrosive. Anger passes quickly, and hatred mellows with age and learning, but guilt endures.

Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. It__ been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

No one blames her.""That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none.

This guilt is a joke, and it__ exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.

It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.