#guilt

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#after #ask #because #connect #connecting

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#believe #completely #free #guilt #hurt

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#ask #atheist #away #better #could

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ashamed #blushes #guilty #innocence #nothing

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#escape #ever #every #every man #fire

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#cannot #feels #forget #guilty #how

Every guilty person is his own hangman. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#guilty #hangman #his #own #person

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books. ↗

— David Sedaris

#books #british #guess #guilty #guilty pleasure

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt. ↗

— Lalla Ward

#appearing #been #begin #bore #burden