Guilt Quotes · Page 37

Never fight on the wrong side; you might win but the burden of guilt is more than a loss.

— Lilian Salan

“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I was torturing her. Guilt was her poison, and I was pouring it down her throat.”

— Rebecca Donovan

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

— Arianna Huffington

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

— Brené Brown

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

— Sophocles

“Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers. (p.138)”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

— Jonathan Swift

“Sometimes to escape the noise of haunting memories, you need your best friends hand in your own, to help erase the sound…

— Andrea Michelle

I'm such a goody two-shoes, I've never stolen a single thing. I would not be able to handle it. I would not…

— Laura Benanti

Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so…

— Chris Hemsworth

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel…

— Meda Chesney-Lind

“Life is full of challenges. In the end, it's getting up that pulls us through the dark days. So we can admire…

— Azelene Williams

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my…

— James Otis

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however…

— W. H. Auden

No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and…

— Rand Paul

Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A…

— Rajneesh

“SHAME-BASED MARRIAGE AND PARENTAL MODELS It is obvious that a major source of toxic shame is the family system and its multigenerational…

— John Bradshaw

“The fight with my various forms of dissatisfaction tires me; but I know this is not a personal fight. When I talk…

— Doris Lessing

“Religion, with its metaphysical error of absolute guilt, dominated the broadest, the cosmic realm. From there, it infiltrated the subordinate realms of…

— Wilhelm Reich

“The greatest gift of having done this work (the research and the personal work) is that I can recognize shame when it’s…

— Brené Brown

They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs ingesting more and more fear…

— Erykah Badu

One might expect that the families of murder victims would be showered with sympathy and support, embraced by their communities. But in…

— Eric Schlosser

“I was tempted to tell the whole truth. But in moments when a confession was about to seep out, I stopped myself,…

— Sascha Rothchild

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

— Gilbert Baker

No Jews have our own guilt, that's why we have psychiatrists - the Jewish version of a priest.

— Nan Goldin

Guilt is not a reason why you should let go of the person who truly loves you so much.

— Anonymous

“The child turns up still trusting these lies to be the truth.”

— Patricia Dsouza

The hardest part of broken relationships is the REGRETS which are left with us forever.

— Anonymous

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

— Veronica Roth

The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.

— Mother Teresa

That instant pain of guilt when you know you have betrayed the person that just trusted his life to you.

— Monika Geidane

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

— Bill Konigsberg

I didn't cry cause she told me she loved me. I cried because I didn't.

— Francisco Quinonez

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

— Kevin Kline

Forgive yourself. For your pain caused others to realize the reality of life.

— Nayely Saldana

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

— Philip Yancey

“What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.”

— John Corwin

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

— Patrick Chappatte