Guilt Quotes

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.

Do not pour guilt into someone's psyche, and don't let anyone tamper with your conscience.

Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless.

Food = joy ... guilt ... anger ... pain ... nurturing ... friendship ... hatred ... the way you look and feel.... Food = everything you can imagine.

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Mysticism requires the notion of the unknowable, which is revealed to some and withheld from others; this divides men into those who feel guilt and those who cash in on it.

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

The first thing I'd say to women is put aside the guilt. I think we're all genetically programmed to feel guilty for not giving total effort at the job.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

Many think that assigning blame settles matters.

Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.

Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

Only good people feel guilt.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.