Best sorrow & guilt Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.”

Men Earth Pain Evil Water Justice Levels Poverty Sorrow Madness Guilt Corruption Sickness Fountain

Author:William Hazlitt

“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

“Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.”

Done Sorrow Guilt Looking Back Amends

Author:Eknath Easwaran

“sorrow is easier than guilt.”

Easier Sorrow Guilt

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

“Writing itself, if not misunderstood and abused, becomes a way of empowering the writing self. It converts anger and disappointment into deliberate and durable aggression, the writer's main source of energy. It converts sorrow and self-pity into empathy, the writer's main means of relating to otherness. Similarly, his wounded innocence turns into irony, his silliness into wit, his guilt into judgment, his oddness into originality, his perverseness into his stinger.”

“You've got all these parents who are projecting their pathologies of fear onto their kids and those kids are understandably messed up. Tragedies happen and that you have to allow kids to experience their own fear and guilt and sorrow. It's the cover-up that really screws people over. Unfortunately, America specializes in cover-ups.”

People Kids Parent Sorrow Tragedy Guilt

Author:Steve Almond

“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.”

“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

“Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.”

Heart Helping Lost Forget Sorrow Bigger Guilt Dear Tiny Dust Help Me Galaxy God Help Dear God Specks Meaninglessness Forget Me God Help Me

Author:Anne Rice

“It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either." "Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly. His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love—then you are human.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Humans Looks Said Eye Care White Boys Know How Brother Sorrow Guilt His Eyes Demon Look At Me Your Brother Clockwork Angel Infernal Devices Sorrow Love

Author:Cassandra Clare

“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

“One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because he was incapable of coming to such a realization, this was what it came down to: he, Kazuo Kiriyama, felt no emotion, no guilt, no sorrow, no pity, towards the four corpses, including Mitsuru's—and that ever since the day he was dropped into this world theway he was, he had never once felt a single emotion.”

World Might Certain Given Felt Emotion Four One Thing This World Sorrow Guilt Including Pity Realization Incapable Corpses

Author:Koushun Takami

“I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act.”

“A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.”

Self Conditions Honesty Sorrow Conscience Shame Foundation Guilt Invites Immense Anguish Condemnation Tranquil

Author:Richard G. Scott

“There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.”

Care Lasts Given Fear Sorrow Losing Accounts Guilt Burden Riches Temptation Get Rich

Book:The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition

“But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window, as through the narrow crevice of one good deed in a murky life of guilt, the face of Heaven shone bright and merciful. He raised his head; gazed upward at the quiet sky, which seemed to smile upon the earth in sadness, as if the night, more thoughtful than the day, looked down in sorrow on the sufferings and evil deeds of men; and felt its peace sink deep into his heart.”

Source: Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations

“Contemplation does not ignore the 'historical Gethsemane', does not ignore the mystery of evil, guilt and its bloody atonement. The happiness of contemplation is a true happiness, indeed the supreme happiness; but it is founded upon sorrow.”

Doe Evil Mystery Sorrow Guilt Historical Supreme Contemplation Bloody True Happiness Atonement Gethsemane

Author:Josef Pieper

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