Guilt Quotes

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

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked int...

The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there.

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to ...

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and s...

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retri...

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable.I stare...

Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, an...

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly an...

Guilt is the other side of compassion. Its original purpose was to enable you to empathize on an awa...

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I fee...

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. A...

I feel guilty when I feed them unhealthy food they like. I feel guilty when I feed them healthy food...

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.

...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn...

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to fee...

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go...

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, s...

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly a...

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

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

Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be ...

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The dan...

This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on...

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making c...

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then...

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

A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie any...

trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of ...

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

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that...

That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject w...

It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, ...

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterne...

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

When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him....

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white...

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “...

Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soi...

Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her wo...

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squee...

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became lik...

It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of...

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.

So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right t...

The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because...

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

There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of t...

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people...

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twist...

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to...

Conviction of sin is one of the rarest things that ever strikes a man. It is the threshold of an und...

God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hear...

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minis...

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humo...

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of ...

The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself am...

No one else could see all the bodies she’d left behind, but they were there, looking at her. Or mayb...

The back of my hand to guilt.

No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty ...

Guilt cannot, in fact, express itself, except in the indirect language of "captivity" and "infection...

With guilt there arises indeed a sort of demand which can be called scrupulosity and whose ambiguous...

He was clearly not the murderer whom Hawksmoor was seeking, but it was generally the innocent who co...

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . ....

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you th...

Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despit...

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name;...

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

[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: W...

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, h...

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me ...

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to def...

Her free hand was clenched in a fist. I held still, waiting for her to say something, to tell me she...

Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude:...

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was him...

Let no guilty man escape if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of...

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the q...

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-sto...

To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: t...

Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what h...

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

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

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better ...

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

I should have forgiven him.”“Maybe. Maybe there’s more we all could have done,” he says, “but we jus...

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and ...

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

Those who are ignorant should be taught all you can teach them; society is to blame for not providin...