Guilt Quotes

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowled...

Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’...

People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer fro...

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in...

People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call...

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out ...

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but t...

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

So often when people hear about the suffering in our world, they feel guilty, but rarely does guilt ...

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicari...

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, thes...

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again...

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...

I, however, have really never been anywhere yet, not because some sins or other could wrap themselve...

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't f...

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.

There is no guilt in feelings ever.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

Taking trips tore all of us up inside, for they seemed, each journey away from home, something that ...

When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never h...

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as...

Amory had rather a Puritan conscience. Not that he yielded to it--later in life he almost completely...

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not ...

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

Guilt is never to be doubted.

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth conside...

At this point, I can no longer avoid setting out, in an initial, provisional statement, my own hypot...

Very harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and ther...

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly...

Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt comp...

There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuildin...

The Christian soul knows it needs Divine Help and therefore turns to Him Who loved us even while we ...

Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhe...

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin.

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It w...

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.

Our grief is not a cry for war."That's how New Yorkers feel," the driver said. "They know what bombi...

If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne...

Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only ...

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of h...

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is r...

She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society, a co...

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...