Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Fear and guilt are sisters;

Guilt is often an emotion we carry from childhood and then project onto current circumstances when we felt as though we were burdens to those around us.

“Now sometimes I just feel guilty about the other side of the coin, that we’ve created this life, not only a big responsibility, but it also can be very negative,” she added.

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

For to those who have not the means within themselves of a virtuous and happy life every age is burdensome; and, on the other hand, to those who seek all good from themselves nothing can seem evil that the laws of nature inevitably impose. To this class old age especially belongs, which all men wish to attain and yet reproach when attained; such is the inconsistency and perversity of Folly! They say that it stole upon them faster than they had expected. In the first place, who has forced them to form a mistaken judgement? For how much more rapidly does old age steal upon youth than youth upon childhood? And again, how much less burdensome would old age be to them if they were in their eight hundredth rather than in their eightieth year? In fact, no lapse of time, however long, once it had slipped away, could solace or soothe a foolish old age.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility,; especially when the choice comes too late in life for one to be able to start over again.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

She was indeed aching with that depression, which oddly takes the form of a sense of guilt, that comes to those who find themselves alone in sobriety among the alcoholized.

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

Grief is half of old age.

Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.