"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."

Guilt, Realization, Emotion, Awareness

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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."

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"I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted."

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"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..."

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness."

Audre Lorde, American Poet

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"Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English Author

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