Guilt Quotes

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

I carry lots of guilt.

Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge.

Everybody is laden with guilt.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.

When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it—guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it—guilt.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.

Long-term, gospel-motivate d obedience can only come from the grace of what Jesus has already done, not the guilt of what we must do.

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

He claims he has never known fatigue while obeying the law, but when he does break it he feels a sense of guilt in discovering the slightest evidence of fatigue which tells him that he has broken it.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear.

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

Though inclination be as sharp as will, My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution is the pride of place that has been given to Guilt.

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

I would forget it fain, But oh, it presses to my memory, Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.

Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity.

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself.

It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.