Guilt Quotes

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.

Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man.

We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.

Power without guilt, love without doubt.

Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked with guilt." "I doubt it.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated by Church and State.

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone; Then do not wake me, keep your voices low.

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

Each human being has his own sexual profile, and should exercise it without guilt - provided he does not oblige others to exercise it with him.

He that knows no guilt can know no fear.

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have found out. But I didn't have the time. Instead, I punched him.

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years - or longer.