Guilt Quotes · Page 35

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

— Bill Watterson

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

— William Congreve

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

— Indra Nooyi

“I am not exactly wallowing in guilt at the moment, but guilt is guilt.It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”

— Patricia Dsouza

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

— Aeschylus

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

— Deepak Chopra

“Children are naive, they don’t possess enough skills to be able to recognize the balance between the truth and a lie.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.”

— V.S. Carnes

I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done…

— Wayne Dyer

Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

— Neale Donald Walsch

“Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.”

— Bryant McGill

A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses…

— Sidney Abbott

People who are prone to guilt tend to work harder and perform better than people who are not guilt-prone, and are perceived…

— David D. Burns

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures…

— Bill Griffith

Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

— Lee Salk

Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt…

— Malcolm X

As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is…

— Justin Torres

Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its…

— Judith Martin

“This, the guilt, will be the hardest part for Galen. He already takes responsibility for so much that isn’t his fault. He…

— Anna Banks

Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell. Not being guilty, you will have the freshness of dewdrops…

— Rajneesh

For centuries, the mystics of spirit had existed by running a protection racket - by making life on earth unbearable, then charging…

— Ayn Rand

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you…

— Clive Barker

“In an antique city-state, or a modern municipality, shame is the penalty for the violation of ethics—making things more symmetric. Banishment and…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The guilt of breaking someones heart will haunt you for the rest of your life.

— Anonymous

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

— Bill Watterson

The most common lie uttered without thought, sincerity, resolve, or guilt: I love you.

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

— Audre Lorde

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

— Brené Brown

“No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.”

— Ruta Sepetys

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

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

— Robert Breault

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

— Thomas Mann

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

Self-forgiveness following guilt is self-essential to esteem, which is key to enjoying life and relationships.

— Senoraroy

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

— Horace

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

— J.D. Robb

As parents we all have that underlying guilt about how much time we give to our careers.

— Chris Harris