Guilt Quotes · Page 23

You know you're not sorry if you cheated you're just sorry you got caught.

— Anonymous

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

— Iyanla Vanzant

“…you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.”

— Jodee Blanco

Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

— Peter McWilliams

“How is it that shame affixes itself to the violated, and not to the violator?”

— Janet Benton

I see the guilt through your shame, I see your soul through your window pain

— Lil Wayne

“I regard an illegal non-disclosure termination agreement as an admission of guilt.”

— Steven Magee

Life has this funny and annoying way of making you feel guilty for things you failed to do.

— Michael Hayssus

Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by…

— John Newton

“True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had…

— Edgar Allan Poe

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or…

— Herb Goldberg

Sex is where you find it. I say take it and enjoy it. Give and receive freely, without fear, without guilt and…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Abused children often learn to block out their pain, for it is too distressing. Since it’s not possible to block emotions selectively,…

— Patricia Dsouza

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who…

— Erica Jong

I had a girlfriend when I was 17-18, and when she was 21, she wanted us to get married. I couldn't do…

— Suresh Raina

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every…

— Henry Fielding

The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the…

— Philip Graham Ryken

“Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Then the guilt from my ignored responsibilities grows so large that merely carrying it around with me feels like a huge responsibility.…

— Allie Brosh

Good guilt is a product of love and responsibility. It is a natural, positive instinct that parents and good child care providers…

— Jean Marzollo

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He…

— Joel Osteen

“My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she hasn't…

— Trevor Cole

“There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and…

— Orhan Pamuk

When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first…

— Cilla Black

There's been times I've been paralyzed by guilt when I've had to work crazy hours or miss a parent-teacher interview.

— Catherine Reitman

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in…

— Patrick deWitt

Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not.

— Mason Cooley

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

— Janet Evanovich

Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.

— Leslie Jamison

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

— William Shakespeare

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a…

— Jerry Bridges

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

— Heather Locklear

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

— Simon Cowell

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

— Lorna Luft

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

— Dave Grohl

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.

— Carolyn Hax

“Sexual abusers often convince their victims that the abuse was their own demerit.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica”

— Shannon A. Thompson

Rejection makes the man, no matter how hard he has tried, rejection will make him stronger.

— Gian Lewis

In our zealousness to be rid of guilt we may make poor decisions about amends-making.

— Anonymous