Guilt Quotes

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

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

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.

There is no such thing as collective guilt.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good; when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error

No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Vehemently denying something always implies guilt.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.

The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.