guilt Quotes

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

The self is hateful.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.

I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.