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1 " After reading Burgum, [Patricia Highsmith] wrote in her cahier that, like Kafka, she felt she was a pessimist, unable to formulate a system in which an individual could believe in God, government or self. Again like Kafka, she looked into the great abyss which separated the spiritual and the material and saw the terrifying emptiness, the hollowness, at the heart of every man, a sense of alienation she felt compelled to explore in her fiction. As her next hero, she would take an architect, 'a young man whose authority is art and therefore himself,' who when he murders, 'feels no guilt or even fear when he thinks of legal retribution'. The more she read of Kafka the more she felt afraid as she came to realise, 'I am so similar to him. "
― Andrew Wilson , Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
2 " I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen. "
― Stefan Molyneux
3 " There is no guilt in feelings ever. "
― Erich Maria Remarque , Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
4 " We’re animals. No shame, no guilt - no sin… "
― Heather McVea , Turn Darkly
5 " ...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence. "
6 " I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad that I cannot write in my native Ilokano. History demanded this; if it isn't English I am using now, I would most probably be writing in Spanish like Rizal, or even German or Japanese. "
