Guilt Quotes · Page 36

Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

— John Bevere

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

— Helene Deutsch

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

— Terry Goodkind

There's no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

— Publilius Syrus

I have no qualms: no shame, no guilt, no embarrassment. I tend to act out a lot.

— Brendon Urie

“But guilt is about as useful as regret, since neither do anything to set things right.”

— Ken Lange

“She reeks of sadness, of indecision and guilt. And desire, of course. It's even stronger than yours.”

— Julie Kagawa

“This side of Eden, whether we realize it or not, we feel the stain on our souls, and at every opportunity, we…

— Dean Koontz

Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious…

— Edward Gibbon

“He was my addiction and once I got that taste of him I wouldn’t want to stop even if I was getting…

— Kailin Gow

I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged,…

— Heloise

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when…

— Sophia Bush

Ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system -- a system in which the state must establish guilt by evidence independently…

— Felix Frankfurter

“- No matter how “perfect” our circumstances are, they don’t change our thoughts about “bad” events from our past that create our…

— Noah Elkrief

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame…

— Friedrich Schiller

“The longer I procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty I feel about it. The guilt I feel causes…

— Allie Brosh

“Squandering time is a luxury of profligate youth, when the years are to us as dollars are to billionaires. Doing the same…

— Tim Kreider

“For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered…

— patricia highsmith

The Wayshower is a compelling, multi-layered and complex spiritual journey about a guilt-ridden man searching to understand his connection to his guru…

— Arielle Ford

Lord, I have done all this with you, You. If I am, I am to be left with you once again, I…

— Nkululeko Goqo

Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to…

— Kambri Crews

So white guilt is not a guilt of conscience; it's not something that you get up in the morning and say, my…

— Shelby Steele

“...it was ludicrous to think that we could just talk our way out of shame, that shame was necessary, that it prevented…

— Miriam Toews

Because of Jesus Christ, peace can replace guilt. Healthy relationships can be restored. Addictions can be overcome.

— M. Russell Ballard

“Guilt. That might have been the only purely human feeling Knox had left.”

— Alex London

We were not born with guilt nor obligation. When you give in to guilt, you endorse it.

— Anita Moorjani

“This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.”

— Ann Aguirre

Once you get rid of the guilt, sin, fear and doubt you will realize what life's about...

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy.”

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

— Ernest Becker

“The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt.”

— Elvis Costello

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

— Anthony de Mello

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

— Blake Edwards

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

— Bob Gunton

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

— Ayn Rand

“Because any guilt the size of a speck of dust, or shame, can crush even the best of men, in mountains of…

— Volatalistic Phil

“when these little ones don’t receive the love, they need in their homes, they seek attention outside.”

— Patricia Dsouza

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

— Janet Jackson