The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“My mother is now in the hospital 60 miles away, where they are treating her pneumonia. I refuse to feel guilty. Guilt… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“I blame my parents. It's their fault for raising me with a little guilt-demon living in my stomach. I can't ever just… — Kevin Emerson Copy Share Image
“I didn't know for sure whether Miss Sarah's feelings came from love or guilt. I didn't know whether mine came from love… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“The opposite of forgiveness is judgment, and judgment always creates separation and guilt. Judgment will evoke a sense of guilt in the… — Shanti Christo Foundation Copy Share Image
In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary"… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
Traditional Muslims stand at the foot of the ladder, living in guilt for not really practicing Islam. At the top are fundamentalists,… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
“Healthy shame is the psychological foundation of humility. It is the source of spirituality. What I discovered was that shame as a… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Toxic shame, with its more-than-human, less-than-human polarization, is either inhuman or dehumanizing. The demand for a false self to cover and hide… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion. In fact, that was - at the very beginning of this process, we… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I am here to help you unburden all your guilt feelings. I am here to help you to start trusting yourself again.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
“The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had… — Mary Jo Putney Copy Share Image
“Even if I had friends or people around me it did not matter anymore, I always felt isolated and unique from all… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear,… — B.G. Bowers Copy Share Image
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once you are aware of wrong done , you will hopefully not repeat them again. If you do, the sense of guilt… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
I wake when my wife wakes, at 7:30 A.M. I'd like to sleep longer, but she has to go off to work,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“I had a chance to lay it all out on the table, and I didn't. But that's the problem with shame. Shame… — Meghan Quinn Copy Share Image
“Give me your past, all your pain, all your anger, all your guilt. Release it to me, and I will be a… — Jewel E. Ann Copy Share Image
“I believe we all heal differently, it is a process, and many like me are here to help you as you heal,… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people. — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check. — Edward Burns Copy Share Image
I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
“as chaste men think so the world goes asunder for evil disguised in chaste sweet guilt is the evil that kills the… — Elwood Jake Copy Share Image
I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear… — Dan Greenburg Copy Share Image
If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
