Punishement Quotes

“We have no idea any more what it means to feel guilty. The communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them, murdurers have the excuse that their mothers didn't love them. And suddenly you come out and say: there is no excuse. No one could be more innocent in his soul and conscience than Oedipus, and yet he punished himself when he saw what he had done.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Any punishment is an insult to the crime”
― Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall

“Then I was alone and I didn't like it. Maybe I should be alone always, I thought”
― Amina Cain, Indelicacy