"Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow."

Guilt, Regret, Truth, Power, Wisdom

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"Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow."

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"It's a terrible thing, what we did, said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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"It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don't make a u-turn."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it."

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"What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy."

Dennis Miller, American Comedian

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"Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it."

Andy Dick, American Actor

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"Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice " only later did she realise it was that thing he'd been concealing " known as guilt."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe."

Donald Miller, American Author

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"Turn around. you've got grass and dead flowers. My fingers naturally began to comb through my long, black strands, shaking things loose as Sarti carefully removed more stubborn pieces. The flowers had been left over from my forced marriage to Thaddeus. The grass, from a sensual night with Kresh the eve of my honeymoon. Devilish irony."

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