Guilt Quotes

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...

His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and ...

It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting...

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he...

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a m...

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

…In the very simplicity of her desire to punish herself appeared egoism in its purest form. Never be...

People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of the...

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will d...

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to t...

His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of t...

We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themsel...

Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of ...

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations a...

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behav...

She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big ...

It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'l...

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had ...

Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, ...

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of no...

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per c...

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on stero...

I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insu...

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

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike...

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on...

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

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I h...

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself,...

No one blames her.""That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

Intentions are nothing

The kind of submission or resignation that he showed, was that of a man who was tired out. I sometim...

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...