#guilt

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity. ↗

— Criss Jami

#being-strong #burden #discernment #fear #guilt

It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#guilty #soul #unexpected #dreams

It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults. ↗

— J.B. Albano

#guilty #education

The existence of guilty sense is so important in education and religion. ↗

— Toba Beta

#guilt #guilty-sense #religion #sense #education

There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress to the nation; and the innocent ones, who get involved because they believe in equality and justice. The arrogant ones are obsessed with power; they presume to think for everyone; only bad can come of them. But the innocents? The only harm they do is to themselves. But that's all they ever wanted in the first place. They feel so guilty about the suffering of the poor, and are so keen to share it, that they make their lives miserable on purpose. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#guilt #orhan-pamuk #others-suffering #snow #the-poor

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt. ↗

— Libba Bray

#guilt #women #family

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#horror #imagery #imagination #macabre #supernatural

Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..." He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow. "You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich. "You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?" "Even now," the woman says firmly. ↗

— Margaret Peterson Haddix

#asking #fear #forgiveness #guilt #help

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. ↗

— George Sewell

#fear #guilt #pays #tax

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#guilt #immorality #morality #religion #shame