Guilt Quotes

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

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

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

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.

To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

There is no greater guilt than the unneccessary war.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

I do not believe in guilt, moderation or dull pencils.

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

I treat myself occasionally and don't have any guilt or conditions placed on it.

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.

You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.

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.

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

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Guilt was its own prison.

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out.

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?