Guilt Quotes

Guilt is the thief of life.

— Anthony Hopkins

“...bacon is fried guilt...”

— Erin Whibley

“Our Shame and”

— Ronald Rolheiser

“When guilt leads to good.”

— Khaled Hosseini

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

— Jane Porter

Guilt's a terrible thing.

— Ben Jonson

sorrow is easier than guilt.

— Anne Sexton

Guilty people get defensive.

— Andrew Cervantes

Men are that they might have joy . . . not guilt trips.

— Russell M. Nelson

“Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.”

— Iris Murdoch

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

— Linda Barnes

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

— Max Lucado

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

— Seneca the Younger

Shame can be self-indulgence too.

— Eleanor Clark

“Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily”

— Deborah McKinlay

Your only shame is to have shame.

— Amy Tan

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

— Charles Spurgeon

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

— Linda Cardellini

Terror of being found out is not always a preservative, it sometimes hurries on the act which it ought to prevent.

— Margaret Oliphant

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

— Deepak Chopra

“...when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us”

— Thomas Mann

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

— Robert Breault

“Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She’d learned that one at her mother’s knee.”

— J.D. Robb

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

— Horace

Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you…

— Brené Brown

“Something stops in my chest, and the guilt is almost impossible to breathe through. I tighten my fingers around the pen and…

— Alessandra Torre

“she did understand the corrosive nature of guilt. It could destroy from the inside, worrying at your mind until you submitted.”

— Lisa Hartley

“Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of…

— Jennifer Birkett

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being…

— R. D. Laing

“I experience what it is to exist in perpetual fear, afraid, totally controlled, manipulated, ashamed at all times and many more things…

— Patricia Dsouza

“Mia bottled all this up inside of her and just couldn’t manage it any longer. Mia would feel like it was entirely…

— Patricia Dsouza

Guilt is an emotion that is never very far away from Rick Grimes. He's a man that shoulders the responsibility, and it's…

— Andrew Lincoln

The private and serious drama of guilt is not often a useful one for fiction today and its disappearance, following perhaps the…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“Henri held herself as if only her arms could keep her pieced together, and I saw that behind all her fake control—throwing…

— Jessica Taylor

“More accurately, on the bed and on the table lay various pieces of what had once been a body. Holmes was leaning…

— Lyndsay Faye

But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most…

— Katherine Applegate

I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to…

— Sid Fleischman

“Connor felt the burn of anger mingling with his guilt. He knew Caroline had been hurt, and he was truly sorry for…

— Mira Lyn Kelly

Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin,…

— Thomas Brooks

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all…

— Paulo Coelho