Guilt Quotes

We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.

Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me.

Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income.

Let us have no guiltLeft to wasteFor dreaming still.

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.

Sometimes "No" is the kindest word.

A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly.

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.

As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.

Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!

Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.

Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them.

Shed the tears.Shed the blame and guilt too.So that your heart mends and heals.

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it.

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

The greater evil who is in-When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the painOr he who pays for the sin?

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

The fastest way to get lost is to go on a guilt trip!

Spring is coming....Time for some cleaning. Remove all the self-doubt, worry, jealousy, regret, anger, guilt, or any other negative emotions that are holding you back from your happy, fulfilled life.

Anger, hatred, and bitterness are lethal poisons. They cause a slow, painful emotional death that only you suffer. Self-destruction will never defeat an enemy or create justice.

Give me your past, all your pain, all your anger, all your guilt. Release it to me, and I will be a safe harbor for the life you need to leave behind.

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way,

It is important to recognize guilt as the temporary teacher it is.

There is no guilt in feelings ever.

Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.

Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction?

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.

Look innocent. Have hope.” “Okay.” “And remember…” “What?” “Even O.J. Simpson was acquitted.

She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.

Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble.

Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.

...Except when I was alone. I'd hate myself. It's how we feel about ourselves when we're alone that must guide our decisions.

You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone's poor choices.

Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.

Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl