{"quotes":[{"text":"I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth....","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["anxiety","anxiety-disorders","burden","cowardly","emotional-wounds","guilty-conscience","haunted","haunting","hypocrisy","monster-under-the-bed","monsters-of-men","ptsd","secret","self-hate","sinful-nature","why-we-need-jesus","wounded-souls","wounds-to-the-heart"],"id":27929,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring bug-eyed at uncooperative pencils. What was missing? The answer seemed obvious—intense emotional incentive. But at the moment I didn’t feel desperate or angry or afraid. Just severely bored out of my mind and guilt-ridden for feeling so mind-numbingly b.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["bored","boredom","guilty-conscience","gwen","phantom-s-veil","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":63301,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Accept it all your so called SINS are only a result of your unawareness and nothing else, No sooner you realize this simple fact, you're instantly transformed. Stay Guilt Free, Celebrate Life!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["celebrate-life","guilt","guilty-conscience","psychology","sins","unawareness"],"id":75351,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.","author":"Stephen Chbosky","tags":["feelings","guilt","guilty-conscience","guilty-sense","hurt","love","reaction","terrible","words"],"id":90179,"author_id":"Stephen+Chbosky"},{"text":"I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity.","author":"James Hauenstein","tags":["guilt","guilt-free","guilt-trips","guilty-conscience","life","life-and-living","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","living","living-life","living-life-to-the-fullest","no-regrets","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","philosophy","sanity"],"id":97224,"author_id":"James+Hauenstein"},{"text":"A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["guilt","guiltiness","guilty-conscience","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":119378,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.","author":"Darin Strauss","tags":["dreams-and-reality","guilt","guilty-conscience","sleep"],"id":137436,"author_id":"Darin+Strauss"},{"text":"How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?''I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is your own guilt clamoring in your ears.","author":"Cinda Williams Chima","tags":["bold","guilty-conscience","justice"],"id":144171,"author_id":"Cinda+Williams+Chima"},{"text":"I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["guilty-conscience","laila","longing","maternal-love","miracle"],"id":158903,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"},{"text":"We carry the world. They did. All those young men did. They carried the world, and it was heavy, and they didn't know what to do with it. Was this the rest? Was this the war? Things had already spun out of control and they weren't always as black and white or as right or wrong as Nick liked to think.","author":"Matthew J. Hefti","tags":["deployment","guilty-conscience","hurt","iraq","lesson","love","regret","remorse","war"],"id":165354,"author_id":"Matthew+J.+Hefti"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}