#guilt

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#guilt #marriage #life

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#guilt #remorse #sorrow #witch #life

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about. ↗

— Pete McCarthy

#guilt #education

She had two broken ribs, a broken left arm, and a broken nose; splinters from the glasses and beer bottles had gashed her back and arms. When the men had finished, they had lifted one of the boards and thrown her under the stage... They were playing a polka as the policemen pulled the girl out of the muck. ↗

— Ferdinand von Schirach

#men

I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#motivation #motivational

If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #love #philosophy #faith

If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls - The Consumptive. Belsen 1945 ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#belsen #death #disease #guilt #wwii

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#guilt #history #war #destruction

There is no client as scary as an innocent man." J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#clients #criminal-law #fear #guilt #innocence

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, because it results in self-hatred. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#guilt #impotence #iraq-war #leftism #pathology