Partly he is trying to escape the pain of his wife's having left him for a another man, the trouble of a lawsuit for his having slept with one of his students and the unbearable guilt of having caused the death of a family in a drunken car accident.

For having lied to Bianca I lived with an unbearable guilt, and now, having given her this gift of the Mother's blood I felt a huge measure of relief from it.

On seeing Dayananda's suffering the cook was overcome with unbearable guilt and remorse.

Another group of scholars, which includes Alexander Poznansky and Roland John Wiley, have more recently suggested that the composer experienced "no unbearable guilt" over his sexual nature and "eventually came to see his sexual peculiarities as an insurmountable and even natural part of his personality ... without experiencing any serious psychological damage."

Their logic constrains them to believe Moore's confession was simply the result of his unbearable guilt and that Christopher merely exposed that guilt.

And now, now she had even more reason to feel guilt, heavy and unbearable, pressing down, hanging around her shoulders.

It's likely closer to the mark to say they cleansed themselves of guilt easily because their everyday existence required brutal judgments (often deadly) which in a softer land would burden men with unbearable guilt.

A feeling of unbearable guilt overwhelmed him; his stomach knotted.