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Quotes About Guilt

I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.
~ Margaret Atwood
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.
~ Margaret Atwood
A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
When Uncle Hubert spoke of a fellow human being as poor, he meant to convey that either by accident or intention they had done something wrong.
~ Margery Allingham
Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.
~ Mari Serebrov
Everyone comes here for pleasure. Even if they think they don't. Embracing it is harder for some and they go mad before they truly accept it. Most of the places they cme from are founded on guilt and rules. The Ripers want us to break away from that - some wish to tear it from us while others are more subtle.
~ Unknown
the house. She was ashamed about the Mars Bar
~ Marianne Faithfull
I inwardly did nothing.O Iscariot-like crime!
~ Marianne Moore
What is our innocence,what is our guilt? All arenaked, none is safe.
~ Marianne Moore
Når jeg så prøvede på at forstå, hvad der skete, lykkedes det mig aldrig, fordi jeg havde visket 'forbudt af mor', 'forstødt af mor', ud og skrevet 'skyldig', 'gal' i stedet for. Jeg var gal, det var den eneste forklaring, jeg kunne give på det.
~ Unknown
A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
~ Marie Howe
Show me a woman without guilt and I'll show you a man
~ Unknown
Firewater Sometimes I think how alcohol's a marvelous solvent, can remove red people from a continent, turn bronze to guilt. What was DuPont's old motto—Better things for better living through chemistry? You take potatoes from Peru, barley from Palestine, maize from Mexico, sugar cane from
~ Unknown
Cutting is not attention seeking. It's not manipulation. It's a coping mechanism—a punitive, unpleasant, potentially dangerous one—but it works. It helps me cope with strong emotions that I don't know how to deal with. Don't tell me I'm sick, don't tell me to stop. Don't try to make me feel guilty, that how I feel already. Listen to me, support me, help me.
~ Unknown
I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Feelings don't follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.
~ David Levithan, Wide Awake
You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
~ M. F. K. Fisher
desserts are the most crucial part of any meal.
~ Linda Sunshine
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
~ Albert Einstein
Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.
~ Marian Keyes
I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.
~ Rachael Ray
I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t?
~ Wilmer Valderrama
Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.
~ Charlie Hunnam
Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.
~ Zig Ziglar