#guilt

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#mental-health #self-assessment #self-esteem #mental-health

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ↗

— John Adams

#guilt #unnecessary #war

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#before #betraying #connections #country #feeling

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ↗

— Woody Allen

#base #feel #go #guilty #i

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#out #stain #tears #wash

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#best #collective #confessions #crime #discovery

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#better job #change #confess #create #delivering

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#guilt #relationships #death

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare. ↗

— John Mayer

#disappointment #equate #even #explain #feels

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals. ↗

— Roger McGough

#dress #guilt #high #ideals #put