"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."

Guilt, Truth, Regret, Time

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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."

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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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"The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free."

David Sedaris, American Writer

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"A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored."

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"How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Lady Macbeth."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"There is no such thing as collective guilt."

Kurt Waldheim, Austrian Politician

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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

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"With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here."

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"I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check."

Edward Burns, American Actor

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"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."

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"I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

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"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."

Grief

"I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself this time."

Resilience

"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."

Acceptance

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up. I've seen it. It's fascinating." He releases me but doesn't pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. "Sometimes I just...want to see it again. Want to see you awake."

Emotion

"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."

Identity

"Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it."

Awareness

"I pull my foot back again, but Four's hands clamp around my arms, and he pulls me away from her with irresistible force. I breathe through gritted teeth, staring at Molly's blood-covered face, the color deep and rich and beautiful, in a way. She groans, and I hear a gurgling in her throat, watch blood trickle from her lips. "You won," Four mutters. "Stop." I wipe the sweat from my forehead. He stares at me. His eyes too wide; they look alarmed. "I think you should leave," he says. "Take a walk." I'm fine," I say. "I'm fine now," I say again, this time for myself.I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did.I don't."

Conflict

"That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel."

Universe

"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."

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"I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me."

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