Sentences with phrase «bound by guilt»

But the more determined I became, the more bound I found myself — bound by guilt, frustration, and an endless list of expectations I could never achieve.

Not exact matches

Perhaps — many recent fantasies suggest — the fairies are bound more by honor than by empathy, in a hierarchical society (sociologically, a status society rather than a contract one, and moved by shame much more than guilt).

Instead of letting the guilt of our lack of suffering leave us helpless, we give thanks for being unscathed, and show that gratefulness by climbing down into the trenches with the bloodied and binding up the wounds of the broken.

That early religion held no attraction for me, but I was bound to it by the guilt and fear it engendered in me.

We need to be released from guilt about our children, not further bound by it.

Ari, played by the terrific Alex Dimitriades, is torn between his tradition - bound parents and youth culture, and also between his wish for acceptance and his guilt - shrouded attraction to men.