Guilt Quotes
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Guilt Quotes & Sayings
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It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.
— Morton Irving Seiden
There is so much guilt lying around here, just waiting for me to pick it up and carry it with me. There is so much I can torture myself about.
— Taylor Jenkins Reid
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
— Edward Young
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
— William Congreve
I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary
— Hugh Lofting
Free was harder to trace...safety always trumped guilt.
— Stephenie Meyer
Sunrise is starting to feel like a guilt trip.
— Kris Kidd
If threats, manipulation, and guilt could create lasting change in the life of another person, Jesus would not have had to come.
— Paul David Tripp
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
— Dorothea Dix
Guilt is like a putrid sludge that courses through our flesh.
— Robert Palasciano
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
— Simone De Beauvoir
You can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.
— Jodee Blanco
Guilt is the thief of life.
— Anthony Hopkins
And guilt is heavy, like an anchor holding me in place and hindering any and all advancement.
— Kim Holden
The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt.
— Rabindranath Tagore
I carry lots of guilt.
— Rod Stewart
But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.
— Sophie Kinsella
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
— Lawrence Durrell
If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.
— Paulo Coelho
God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.
— Taylor Nadeau
Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.
— Maureen Johnson
The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world.
— John Paul Warren
Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest.-Lo-The Wild Hunt
— Ashley Jeffery
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When we mourn, it should be the loss of love that makes us grieve, not the guilt that we did something wrong.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. — William Shakespeare
But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
— Albert Camus
Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don't know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.
— Kate McGahan
We all find means of anesthesia.
— Brunonia Barry
This book is a personal memoir; but it is also a larger story-about carelessness and guilt, and the wreckage they can make of lives.
— Brooke Hayward
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
— Florence King
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
— Edna O'Brien
Guilt, in other words, isn't always wasted. It can keep us from making the same mistake twice.
— Nicholas Sparks
Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt.
— Matt Haig
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
— Oliver Goldsmith
Guilt was its own prison.
— Richelle Mead
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
— John Marshall
Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.
— Robert Breault
The more guilt and shame that we have buried within ourselves, the more compelled we feel to seek relief through sin.
— Brennan Manning
It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.
— Pierre Corneille
I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.
— Marcus Brigstocke
Sometimes "No" is the kindest word.
— Vironika Tugaleva
It is to be recognized that the negative emotions and the guilt that comes with it is not a part of the Consciousness, it only belongs to the mind!
— Frank M. Wanderer
With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.
— Heather Locklear
We all know the feeling of being torn away from those we love most because of sin and guilt.
— Jim C. Cunningham
I may not beleive in God, but I believe in guilt and no one wants to dick around with eternity, even if it isn't there.
— Jonathan Tropper
Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time,
— Veronica Roth
Sorrow is easier than guilt.
— Anne Sexton
Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.
— Shailene Woodley
Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.
— Veronica Roth
When life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us
— Thomas Mann
Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.
— Nathaniel Culverwell
We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.
— Rachel Held Evans
God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.
— Matt Chandler
A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.
— Kristin Hannah
Homeschooling is not a race ... You will not get behind nor do you have to live with guilt that you feel the need to catch up.
— Tamara L. Chilver
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.
— Melody Beattie
Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.
— David D. Burns
In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.
— Emily Thorne
I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.
— Nick Hornby
his conscience washed clean by happiness.
— Francoise Sagan
I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man's chest.
— Kristen Hope Mazzola
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
— William Congreve
Shed the tears.Shed the blame and guilt too.
So that your heart mends and heals. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.
— Sarah Wayne Callies
Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage
— Emily Giffin
We therefore need to be patient with ourselves, and look upon our sense of guilt as Witnesses!
— Frank M. Wanderer
There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.
— Sophie Kinsella
There's no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.
— Jane Velez-Mitchell
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
— Albert Camus
A man in loss is not a man to trust.
— Auliq Ice
Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
— Iris Murdoch
The trouble is that practically everything one does nowadays is illegal," said Giles gloomily. "That's why one has a permanent feeling of guilt.
— Agatha Christie
There is no collective guilt, ... guilt is individual, like salvation. [p.28]
— Frederick Forsyth
Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.
— Pascal Bruckner
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.
— George Ryan
Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.
— Joseph Bruchac
I always felt guilty. My whole life.
— Ingrid Bergman
I can turn every "is" into "ought ".
— Kevin DeYoung
