Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.
Guilt doesn’t stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.
...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.
Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.
One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.
in my darkest hour she answered my call without resentment or guilt, without hesitation
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests.
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.
When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - an...
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
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.
I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.
Max Cherry: Is white guilt supposed to make me forget that I run a business?
