#guilt

What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave. ↗

— Criss Jami

#deceit #defamation #denial #enemy #feelings

Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion ↗

— Lynn Crilly

#guilt #recovery #guilt

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low. ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#guilt

When psychologists Catherine Caldwell-Harris and Ayse Ayçiçegi compared U.S. and Turkish samples, they found that having "an orientation inconsistent with societal values" is a risk factor for poor mental health. The findings support what the researchers call the personality-culture clash hypothesis: "Psychological adjustment depends on the degree of match between personality and the values of surrounding society." To the extent that introverts feel the need to explain, apologize, or feel guilty about what works best for them, they feel alienated not only from society but from themselves. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#depression #guilt #introversion #psychology #shame

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. ↗

— Jane Austen

#guilt #misery #other #pens

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

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. ↗

— David Attenborough

#feel #good #good time #guilty #having

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

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#been #bride #flower #guilty #had