Quotes About Guilt In The Things They Carried

#1. The emotional garbage I had carried all of those years - the prejudice and the denial, the shame and the guilt - was dissolved by understanding that the Other is not other at all.

John Howard Griffin

#2. I walked, floated, lighter - forty miles, my biggest day yet. I'd lifted the burden of guilt and shame off my body. I held my new hard-won wisdom, the gift three months of walking in the wilderness had carried me to: compassion for my younger self - forgiveness for my innocence.

Aspen Matis

#3. It's all right, little woman, take my word for it. If I were you, I'd cry. You'll see things differently through your tears.

George Barr McCutcheon

#4. Before, I would play a little hoops, a little tennis. Now it's more yoga, Pilates, stretching, some light weight work, push-ups, sit-ups, resistance things. When I used to live on the eleventh floor, I would take the steps. I don't do that so much now. I'm taking the elevator a bit more these days.

Robin Roberts

#5. And I want nothing more than to wrap myself around him and be carried away to a place where I don't have to think. A place where there's no guilt or fear, no right or wrong, no divine punishments or senseless accidents or indeterminate states.

Tammara Webber

#6. The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.

Hiromu Arakawa

#7. We're not a democracy.

Gore Vidal

#8. I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.

Edvard Munch

#9. Hell existed in the imagination of those who feared it, because of the guilt and shame they carried with them after death.

Andrea Barbosa

#10. His eyes were likewise greeted by White Fang, but about the latter there were no signs of shame nor guilt. He carried himself with pride, as though, forsooth, he had achieved a deed praiseworthy and meritorious. There was about him no consciousness of sin.

Jack London

#11. I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

Paul Broun

#12. When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Carlos Slim

#13. President Gerald R. Ford was never one for second-guessing, but for many years after leaving office in 1977, he carried in his wallet a scrap of a 1915 Supreme Court ruling. 'A pardon,' the excerpt said, 'carries an imputation of guilt,' and acceptance of a pardon is 'a confession of it.'

Scott Shane

#14. I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.

Deepak Chopra

#15. No more generational feuds, no more ancient grudges, no more pointless revenge carried out against people who inherited some old guilt from their great-grandparents.

Marko Kloos

#16. The rest of the time he entertained all the guilt that wished to call, carried in by the wind through the darkness, to enter his spirit ...

Colm Toibin

#17. I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

Ruta Sepetys

#18. Superficially my war was a comfortable exercise in futility carried out in a grand Scottish hotel amongst the bridge players and swillers of easy-come-by whisky. My chest got me out of active service and into guilt, as I wrote two, or is it three of the novels for which I am now acclaimed.

Patrick White

#19. I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#20. As me old granny used to say before they carried her home to glory, there's three parts to a good sermon. First The Hook, then lay on The Guilt, then you deliver The Sting. I'll be sending the collection plate round shortly.

Andre The BFG

#21. The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide of darkness seemed to sweep him back to her, postponing from moment to moment his entry into the world of guilt and sorr.

Flannery O'Connor