“I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.”
Edward Burns
“I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt”
Edna O'Brien
“In dreams we can recreate love, fear, guilt, happiness. In our minds we can create this superficial reality with exact copies of human emotion and feeling. The only thing we cannot create is pain. Couldn't it be said, then, that pain is the ony real feeling, the only real substance in the world?”
Kate Miller
“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution”
Oscar Wilde
“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”
Ayn Rand
“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves -- at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others -- at what they did or did not do.”
Peter McWilliams
“The guilty think all talk is of themselves”
Geoffrey Chaucer
