Guilt proverbs

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◆ Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

- Voltaire99

◆ Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

- Aldous Huxley99

◆ I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.

- DD Barant99

◆ It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

- Voltaire99

◆ Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

- Bill Watterson99

◆ If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn't enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

- Graham Greene99

◆ Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

- Vera Nazarian99

◆ Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.

- Anna Godbersen99

◆ My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

- Franz Kafka99

◆ Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

- Gregory Maguire99

◆ In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

- Criss Jami99

◆ But I have my life, I'm living it. It's twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there's something there.

- Banana Yoshimoto99

◆ The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a dagger.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

- Jennifer Donnelly99