Guilt Quotes · Page 22

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

— Leslie Jamison

Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.

— Sebastian Thrun

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

— Lillian Hellman

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

— Anonymous

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

— Barbara Corcoran

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

— Albert Camus

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

— Terry Pratchett

“Guilt is the hyena that'll lunge from behind and hamstring you.”

— Shannon Hale

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that…

— Gretchen Rubin

“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison…

— Mary Shelley

Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their…

— Rachel Cusk

All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of…

— C. S. Lewis

With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans…

— Andrew Roberts

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been…

— Benjamin Franklin

“I always thought saying sorry was more about alleviating guilt, that apologies were designed for the mouth, not for the ears.”

— Swati Avasthi

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all…

— Brené Brown

Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed…

— Thomas Aquinas

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends…

— Aldous Huxley

When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that…

— Stefan Zweig

Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I…

— George Washington

At a certain age, children are total Id - they're anything but beautiful little flowers. That always interests me. The place where…

— Michael Gira

“I found out that “Shame is a reaction to other people’s criticism, an acute personal chagrin at our failure to live up…

— Paul G. Hiebert

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a…

— Isabel Allende

“Walk the Bowery under the El at night and all you feel is a sort of cold guilt. Touched for a dime,…

— E.B. White

You're guilty all the same. Too sick to be ashamed. You want to point your finger but there's no one else to…

— Linkin Park

I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.

— Joe Buck

“I would forget it fain, But oh, it presses to my memory, Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.”

— William Shakespeare

You were never created to live depressed, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be Victorious.

— Anonymous

Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.

— Alan Cohen

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

— Anonymous

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

— John Ruskin

“I feel guilty about most things, though it's usually to do with actions that would impact on other people.”

— Stephanie Merritt

“Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle”

— Leah Braemel

“I will not be guilted or shamed into being something I am not.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

— Plautus

“guilt comes to you not from the things you’ve done, but from the things that others have done to you.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart”

— Orson Scott Card

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a restless identity in the New World. The New World needs an identity without guilt or blame.

— Derek Walcott

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

— Jock Sturges