Guilt Quotes

Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.

You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

You know anything about investigative work?" "Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings.

You never lose the love of God. Guilt is the warning that temporarily you are out of touch.

You’re so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I’ll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

There are far too many self esteem problems in the world as it is. No sense taking on plant guilt, too.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.

Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

Isn't three quarters of life a guilty pleasure?

A lot of the hallmark behaviors of autism - flat affect, stimming, not looking someone in the eye - could very easily be misinterpreted as signs of guilt.

It's of more importance to community that innocence should be protected than it is that guilt should be punished

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

Don't bother trying to guilt me. Ask my other. It doesn't work.

With other people, Hilly hands out lies like the Presbyterians hand out guilt, but it's our own silent agreement, this strict honesty, perhaps the one thing that has kept us friends

I have a great female support system. We encourage each other because we all face some of the same difficulties. We all experience mommy guilt. It's always great to have an uplifting support system.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past.

I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.

I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

I'm such a goody two-shoes, I've never stolen a single thing. I would not be able to handle it. I would not be able to live with the guilt of having stolen something.

How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?

If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.