Guilt Quotes

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt.

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are.

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody's lives. I mean everybody's lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody's lives.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.

We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.

One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other.

By faith we receive the saving grace of God that delivers us from guilt and sin. In love we participate in the victorious struggle of God against the principalities and powers of evil.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.