Guilt Quotes · Page 27

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The existence of guilty sense is so important in education and religion.”

— Toba Beta

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

— Robert Blair

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

— Craig Thompson

“Guilt is never as good a motivator as love, David. Act out of love. Do it because you love your son.”

— Robert Dugoni

Saying sorry often helped people move on from what can become a festering guilt or resentment.

— Mazher

“Guilt is not a healthy emotion. It rots you from the inside out, turns you bitter.”

— Blair Richmond

It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.

— Pierre Corneille

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

— Amitava Kumar

How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength…

— Anonymous

“He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of…

— Émile Zola

Who among us has any conception of the dimensions of shame that will befall us and our children when one day the…

— Anonymous

Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent…

— John Henry Newman

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius…

— Juvenal

Silence is source of great strength.But if silence is under wrap of guilt it will bite self consciousness & will never allow…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back…

— Jude Law

“The ending to this scene, I know it. Sirix will fail to return and Serena will still continue to wait. Even though…

— Mizuho Kusanagi

Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make…

— Albert Camus

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I…

— Khaled Hosseini

One of the reasons I love prayer is that it is an antidote to guilt and blame. If we are unhappy with…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Guilt is having committed an offence, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; justly subject to a certain accusation…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

If this is something you'd truly like to work on, not out of a sense of guilt but because you would enjoy…

— Mallory Ortberg

Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who…

— Anonymous

“When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we…

— Witi Ihimaera

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

— Pete McCarthy

You'll say you LOVE me and I'll end up lying saying I LOVE YOU too

— Drake

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

— Ernest Becker

“Do we carry the guilt from the sins of past generations? If so, can we bear the weight of that burden? Trent”

— Lisa Wingate

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

— Esther Perel

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

— Anonymous

“No. It would help if I were able to feel guilty.But the end of innocence is also the end of guilt”

— James Baldwin

I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

— Mia Farrow

Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.

— Doreen Virtue

Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.

— John Ruskin

When you forgive, stop bringing it up. No one wants to be around someone who constantly makes them feel guilty.

— Farah Mustafa

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

— Charles Churchill

“You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet .”

— Susan Mallery

“Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse,” Scythe Faraday had been fond of saying.”

— Neal Shusterman

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

— Chuck Palahniuk

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

— Robert Southey