Quotes About Guilt

They lost Olivia at Newport Beach. The panic made Alice hyperventilate. You were meant to be watching her, Nick kept saying. As if that were the point. That Alice had made a mistake. Not that Olivia was missing, but that it was Alice's fault.

It made Alice sick with guilt when she thought about what they had put the children through that year. She and Nick had been so young, so full of the earth-shattering importance of their own feelings.

There was no point saying, You mustn't feel responsible. Of course she felt responsible. Denying her regret would be like denying her loss.

But the truth was, she felt deeply hurt on his behalf, and somehow responsible, as if she'd messed up.

Aunt Connie killing the Munros is manifestly wrong. It was Alice.

His guilt slowly seeped away. His body metabolized it, like alcohol. And she colluded in his lunacy.

This was rock bottom. She'd just licked a Kit Kat wrapper.

No paradigm shift could eliminate a good strong dose of Catholic guilt.

Clementine winced. "I'm sorry, yes, I know, I've been meaning to give you a call, it's just…" "It's just that you don't really want to have any contact with us because you don't want to think about that day and because you didn't really know us that well in the first place," said Tiffany. She was sick of the bullshit. "I get it. I do get it." Clementine flinched.

Go to sleep then, safe in the financial fortress you built on a transgression and yet still it stands.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.

Suicide creates a monstrous emotional upsurge of shame and guilt. Everyone participates in feeling responsible and even shamed at knowing the suicidal candidate. If these feelings are not healed the vampire of suicidal death can strike again and again.

Helplessness, guilt, anger, misplaced pity, and couldn't-there-be-some-other-way emotions can detour and distract our hearts. They can keep us from remembering that God will bring us through to a fresh, new, awe-inspiring understanding of his great love. So, stand as the women at the cross did among the pain and confusion. Remain faithful and steadfast.

hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

In the very instant of his birth, I associated Kevin with my own limitations—with not only suffering, but defeat.   Eva

Kevin folded his arms and looked satisfied; I had gone back to playing Mother. "I knew exactly what I was doing." He leaned onto his elbows. "And I'd do it again." "I

When the children were small, Laurel's mother would occasionally make small, raw observations about gaps between phone calls and visits that would tear tiny, painful strips off Laurel's conscience. I will never guilt trip my children when they are adults, she'd vowed. I will never expect more than they are able to give.

ever since I did what I did to him. I am Phin's living, breathing nightmare and he hates me. And when you hate someone, it leaves deeper scars on your psyche than loving someone ever can.

She has a ten-year-old son and a face like a sincere apology for something that really isn't her fault.

My son . . . guilt, in proper measure, can be a useful emotion. However, when indulged to excess it becomes self-defeating, and even worse, tedious.

People plead guilty or admit to crimes they didn't commit for various reasons. Certain interrogation procedures produce high rates of false confessions.

I feel very guilty about not having a vegetable garden, but it is quite time-consuming.