Guilt Quotes
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.
Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt.
To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.
A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.
It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.
Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base.
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.
I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.
Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.
I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there's too much guilt.
Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
