Guilt Quotes

It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith.

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.

Infidelity is such a pretty word, so light and delicate. Whereas the act itself is dark and thick with guilt, betrayal, confusion, pain, and (okay) sometimes enormous pleasure.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

Postcolonialism is the invention of some rich guys from India who saw that they could make a good career in top Western universities by playing on the guilt of white liberals.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves at the expense of the people.