#guilt

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#wrongdoing #guilt

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#guilt

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #investigative-work #kate #kate-daniels #magic-bites

Out, damned spot! out, I say! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#guilt

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#guilt #kindness #retribution #guilt

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. ↗

— Criss Jami

#assumption #bias #blame #extroversion #extroverts

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#sin #guilt

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#guilt

She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a code so severe that whoever breaks it is hounded from our midst as unfit to live with. She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. She persisted, and her subsequent reaction is something that all of us have known at one time or another. She did something every child has done-she tried to put the evidence of her offense away from her. But in this case she was no child hiding stolen contraband: she struck out at her victim-of necessity she must put him away from her-he must be removed from her presence, from this world. She must destroy the evidence of her offense. ↗

— Harper Lee

#institutions #society #persistence

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#blame #call #discourse #engenders #guilt