Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Without guilt What is a man? An animal, isn't he? A wolf forgiven at his meat, A beetle innocent in his copulation.
My husband is a very present husband, and that has made going to work feel easier. I don't feel guilty. I definitely feel less guilt because I know he's there during breakfast, lunch and supper if I'm not.
And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.
Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!
Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.
I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.
One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.
I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.
Don't lose sleep over things you cannot change! Wash away guilt - it's not worth it.
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.
Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren’t doing something right, that you’re not leaving the “right” legacy, and BE your real self. Just that. That’s all the legacy you’re here to give - the genuine best of you.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.