Unconscious Guilt Quotes

These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother - so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally.

That because of this interplay of conscious and unconscious factors in guilt and the impossibility of legalistic blame, we are forced into an attitude of acceptance of the universal human situation and a recognition of the participation of every one of us in man's inhumanity to man.