Guilt Quotes

With all her finesse for cleaning, Snag sometimes felt that her biggest contribution to mankind was making a mess of things.

On the perfect night there is nothing more transcendent or terrifying than boxing. It's the ultimate representation of the guilty pleasure.

Got something to do with guilt, ' Toro said. 'Her mother, neh?' 'Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us.

As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it.

Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?So may you blame some fair and crystal river, For that some melancholic distracted manHath drowned himself in’t.

Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.

Regret piles up around us like books we have never read.

Guilt doesn’t stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.

Fear and guilt are your 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 choosing to. It's that simple.

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.

If you’re being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God’s hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!

I'd put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead?

A man in loss is not a man to trust.

He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution.

As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn't help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours.

Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.

As a motivation —for humans, but Christians especially— guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that.

Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.

If people ever question your loyalty, you never had theirs.

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.

Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself.

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty?

So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about.

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association.

Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd done to deserve it. and a year trying to make it right.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt.

A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.

Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom

I remembered my father telling me when I was a little girl, "Guilt is bullshit. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty.

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all.

I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.

Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.

...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesn’t matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.

I would only blame myself if something happened to you.

What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.

Enough of this guilt, " he told her, his voice reduced to a cracked whisper. "What's done is done.

Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.

There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.