John Steinbeck Quotes About Guilt

Quotes about: Guilt

• I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

  John Steinbeck

  Guilt, Feels, Uneasy

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

• When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.

  John Steinbeck

  Thinking, Guilt, Inward

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.150, Penguin

• We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

  John Steinbeck

  Guilt, Want, Arms

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.235, Penguin

• I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

  John Steinbeck

  Revenge, Thinking, Rejection

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.237, Penguin

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