Guilt Quotes

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.

Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do not force that sexual identity on others.

The light of love drives away the darkness of guilt.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.

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

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

The fierce and partial writers of the times, ascribing all virtue to themselves, and imputing all guilt to their adversaries, have painted the battle of the angels and the demons.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Successful guilt is the bane of society

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be.

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.