Guilt Quotes

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

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

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

Theres no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

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

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.

FOOVIEW (foo' view) n. The ability of a dog to inflict guilt from any angle in the room while he watches his master eat.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free - indeed, sanctimonious - way for "progressives" to be racists.

If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.

Hitler gave us orders - and we believed in him. Then he commits suicide and leaves us to bear the guilt. He should have remained alive to bear his share.

I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.