Guilt Quotes · Page 18

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

— Anonymous

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten.

— Erma Bombeck

“it swallows gas like a drunk, but a man who lets guilt ruin pleasure is the pincushion of fate.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

There's this working-class guilt - you don't want to be flashy.

— Ant McPartlin

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

— Emma Forrest

Screw guilt -- I could have sex with 10 men and it wouldn't bother me. I'm an atheist!

— Adam Carolla

“Just because you act a little guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.”

— Charlie Chan

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.

— Robert H. Schuller

Remember that everything you do in the gym makes a difference in the way you live your life outside of the gym.…

— Gunnar Peterson

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If…

— Brené Brown

It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel guilty than anyone…

— Laurie Colwin

Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's…

— Lysa TerKeurst

A song is about heartbreak - but what are the constituent feelings? What are the aspects? There is anger, there is guilt,…

— David Longstreth

“It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty…

— Connie Willis

I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with…

— John Steinbeck

“Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty…

— Anonymous

If you're a believer, God is not a thought-experiment requiring a special sub-creation to be tried out in. He's an actual, er,…

— Francis Spufford

It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…

— Charles Darwin

I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates…

— Tavi Gevinson

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the…

— Joyce Meyer

I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is…

— Philippe Falardeau

For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or…

— Margaret Thatcher

When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by…

— R. C. Sproul

But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

— Thomas Paine

“Happiness is a choice, but getting to a happy place can be harder said than done.”

— Camisha Broussard

“The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.”

— Nikki Gemmell

“Guilt sears instantly through my brain, but I don't stop walking away.”

— Donna Cooner

You never lose the love of God. Guilt is the warning that temporarily you are out of touch.

— Jack Dominian

I sometimes joke that I'm half Jewish, because I was raised Catholic... and we share 'the guilt.'

— John Densmore

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

— Lawrence Durrell

“God’s guilt brings enough regret to change us. Satan’s guilt, on the other hand, brings enough regret to enslave us.”

— Thomas Nelson Publishers

Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

— Nathaniel Culverwell

Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free— indeed, sanctimonious— way for progressives to be racists.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Guilt was acid in our veins. It corroded everything. Our heart. Our lungs. Our throat.”

— Kat Zhang

“A racket is a family-authorized feeling used to replace an unacceptable and shameful feeling.”

— John Bradshaw

“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.”

— Geoffrey Wood

I recognize the guilt and the sins of the father, and recognize what's built and what stems from the author.

— Jedi Mind Tricks

No guilt can ever match the guilt you feel after hurting your parents knowingly.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

What drives passion for getting the gospel to all people is not guilt, it's glory.

— David Platt