Guilt Quotes

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

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses.

You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

You cannot live with guilt.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

I was just a kid. I think I stole a candy bar. I remember feeling so terrible. It was the worst shock. I was probably 7. That's my least favorite feeling: guilt.

I always felt guilty. My whole life.

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

We should distinguish between responsibility and guilt. Guilt only touches the ones who committed the crimes but the son of a criminal is not a criminal himself.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Let go of self-condemnation and guilt!

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome.