"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."

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"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."

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"It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

Guilt,

"I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Guilt,

"Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke..."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Guilt, Blame, Trauma, Responsibility

"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

Guilt, Tears, Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman

"Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

Guilt, Law, State

"When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Guilt, Law, Justice, Trust

"That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can't confront it."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

Guilt, Regret, Truth, Emotion

"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

Guilt, Conscience, Alienation, Morality

"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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"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

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"From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man-the function of his reasoning mind."

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"There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit-and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it."

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"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."

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"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."

Evil

"It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that's the sin that can't be forgiven-that I hadn't done what I wanted. It feels so dirty and pointless and monstrous, as one feels about insanity, because there's no sense to it, no dignity, nothing but pain-and wasted pain...why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world-to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage."

Regret

"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving."

Action

"The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life."

Struggle

"We fell, but we never let the box fall from our hands. Then we ran. We ran blindly, and men and houses streaked past us in a torrent without shape."

Struggle

"In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil."

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