Guilt Quotes · Page 20

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

— David D. Burns

“the admittance of guilt was only a fraction of the solution; the corrective action was the far greater journey.”

— S.A. Falconi

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

— Beth Ditto

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

— John Densmore

“I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows”

— john j geddes

guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.

— Ann Landers

“The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.”

— Ayn Rand

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

— Criss Jami

“While trying hard not to apportion blamesI end up apportioning all the blame on myself I take several portions of the blame…

— Amby C. Ezem

Dear love, you are what all the girls one. but why I always feel I miss someone and I know he is…

— Norma Marthalia

“Toxic shame is the belief that one is inherently bad, defective, different, or unlovable. Toxic shame is not just a belief that…

— Robert A. Glover

The enemy has always been able to point the finger of suspicion and/or guilt to Black leaders that they are enriching themselves…

— Louis Farrakhan

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted…

— Samuel Johnson

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often…

— Warren E. Burger

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of…

— Anonymous

Living day in and day out with guilt over sin that has not been properly confessed and forsaken expends a certain amount…

— Lou Priolo

My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of…

— Roger Williams

“women are more likely to experience guilt when they engage in leisure activities in the home. This conflicted sense of leisure is…

— Nick Yee

I see a lot of people who have amazing stories but have been told that their work, their lives, and their stories…

— Faith Adiele

“I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves…

— Paul Beatty

Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without…

— Catherine of Genoa

I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you…

— Linda McCartney

I need to feel like Im doing some kind of good. It sounds cheesy, I know, but I feel like I have…

— Andrew Garfield

“It wasn't a sign of weakness to tell what happened to me. I feel guilt no longer, only regret. The other emotions…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

“When men are given the power to judge themselves, no guilt will ever be found”

— David Ellsworth

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

— Imelda Staunton

“Well, guilt is a bitch, but don't you think if you're thinking it in the first place that it just might be…

— J.A. Redmerski

“Avoiding guilt is not the same as making rational decisions.”

— Gever Tulley

Trashing blood upon my hands feeling guilty for what i've done

— Cath Chatto

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

— Holly Near

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.

— Cathy Guisewite

Never allow yourself to feel guilty for missing someone. Its just your heart reminding you, how much you love them.

— Melania

“You kill by consent, every time you let something… pervert the balance when you have the power to stop it.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

— Hannah Arendt

Guilt is one of those essential emotions. Without it, we could not call ourselves human.

— Anonymous

And what of passion!? And what of shame!? We have suffered both the same!

— Kittie

“Guilt, of course, is feeling bad about one's actions, but shame is feeling bad about oneself.”

— Gregory Boyle

“You invoke a new future when you envision your past in the light of your present.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.”

— Frances Hardinge

“No one is free of guilt, for the law is not subject to belief in it.”

— Tullian Tchividjian