How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?

I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s).

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

There are two kinds of guilt: the kind thatdrowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.

I remembered my father telling me when I was a little girl, "Guilt is bullshit. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty.

He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.

Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

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.

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.

Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.