(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: kindness guilt generosity retribution
After each dream, Frankie woke with a start, soaked in tears. But she found no relief in the peaceful silence of her room, because there everything was real. And the guilt was too immense to bear. Each time she opened her eyes, she'd quickly shut them. And wish that she had woken up for the very last time.
Lisi HarrisonTags: mistakes guilt unhappiness remorse regret suicidal-thoughts feeling-guilty passive-deathwish
She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.
Lisi HarrisonI 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 DonnellyTags: music sad guilt grief harmony guitars
I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.
Holly BlackTags: life good guilt bad choices
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
Rosamund LuptonTags: guilt attitude betrayal mental-health carelessness
A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.
Rosamund LuptonTags: guilt grief self-realization
Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.
Rosamund LuptonTags: self-esteem guilt mental-health self-assessment
Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay."
The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people.
Tags: rain guilt famine realization natural-disaster unnatural-disaster
I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches.
Sid FleischmanTags: guilt holocaust inheritance
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