Best grief & guilt Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?”

Ifs War Government Might Next Differences Grief Guilt Population Helpless Next Time Civilians Propose

Book:The Whole Woman

Source: The Whole Woman

“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.”

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.”

Form Left Grief Behinds Moral Perspective Shame Suicide Guilt Wounds Abandon Manipulation Metaphysical Left Behind Committing Suicide

Book:The Hauerwas Reader

Source: The Hauerwas Reader

“Don't confuse your grief with guilt.”

Grief Guilt

Author:Veronica Roth

“One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in reality they are far more likely to feel isolated, fearful, and ashamed, overwhelmed by grief and guilt, angry at the criminal-justice system, and shunned by their old friends.”

“My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.”

Firsts Wanted Causes Process Grief Essence Weight Guilt Misery Burden Melancholy Rejected Homosexuality Outlook Despised Deviate

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.”

Children Shows Grief Situation Anger Guilt Allowing

Author:Martha Beck

“Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.”

Age Grief Sorrow Horse Guilt Endure Riders

Book:The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel

Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel

“We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness”

Knows Character Light Grief Sun Our Lives Perfection Guilt Individuality Corruption Accidents Graves Dirty Identical Bruises Sameness Lapses

Book:A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years

Source: A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years

“There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.”

Dream Seems Joy Girl Grief Like You Despair Tragedy Guilt Rage These Days Why Not Toms Prudence Faith Hope Girl Of My Dreams

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”

Grief Sorrow Sad Guilt Heavy Guilty Away From You Insurgent Not Guilty Feeling Guilty

Author:Veronica Roth

“Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.”

Grief Tears Guilt

Book:A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four

Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four

“I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish.”

Self Spirit Hate Grief Teach Empty Guilt Finals Pity Vengeance Cunning Self Pity Parish Love Death

Book:The 5th Wave

Source: The 5th Wave

“He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. Instead they seem like weather, like clouds constantly re-forming into new shapes, blown by nameless, unidentifiable winds.”

Ifs Long Seems Would Be Grief Clear Wind Shapes Guilt Clouds Illness Weather Defined Finite Nameless

Author:Julian Barnes

“It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.”

Perfect Grief Happened Guilt Awful

Author:Veronica Roth

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”

Christian Death Grief Guilt Painful Mourning Companion Bereavement Mourn Griefing Death Grief Grief And Death Grief And Mourning Death And Mourning Death Mourning Mourning Death Painful Death Guilt Free

Author:Coco Chanel

“Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.”

Hard Whole Powerful Grief Rich Guilt Corruption Combination Liquid Liquor Informing

Book:The Gospel Of Judas

Source: The Gospel Of Judas

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