Guilt Quotes · Page 27

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.”

— Daniel Nayeri

Dont make people stay mad at you for too long - apologize. Dont make people feel guilty for too long - forgive.

— VVN

“We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it.”

— Joan Borysenko PH.D

“There's nothing like the guilt you feel when there's room in your heart to love evil.”

— Colleen Hoover

I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.

— Nan Goldin

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.

— Joseph Bruchac

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

— Judith Viorst

“Guilt feelings can cause people to experience severe depression after they have been successful in some work or personal project. Chronic bad…

— Marsha Sinetar

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these…

— Josephine Humphreys

“Altizer distinguishes between melancholy as a condition marked principally by a sense of guilt, even a delirium of guilt, and the contemporary…

— Alina N. Feld

Guilt is emotion which one experiences when he does something wrong and is against moral value. It sometimes reflected as judgement of…

— Dr Anil Kr Sinha

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If…

— Michael Pollan

“Whoever reflects on the origin of sin cannot engage himself in a merely theoretical dispute; rather, he is engaged, intimately and personally,…

— G C Berkouwer

“The shame, embarrassment, feeling of low self-worth, and scores of "labels" we give ourselves are not fitting. I am beginning to see…

— Charles L. Bailey Jr

I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case,…

— George Carlin

If you really want to drop the guilt you will have to drop your parental voices within, the priestly voices within. You…

— Rajneesh

Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as…

— Criss Jami

“Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what…

— Cora Carmack

You know, I suffer kind of from survivor's guilt. It's like you suffer from success because you feel like - why me?…

— Goldlink

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I didn't want to try to kill myself, didn't want the blood, and the hysterical parents, and the guilt, or any of…

— Anonymous

What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the…

— Bernhard Schlink

I have never felt guilt, as such, when absent from my children due to work. Work is essential. I may not always…

— Ulrika Jonsson

Regret is a sad harsh feeling. When you know you could of save something.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“rules that left people guilt-ridden, exhausted, and confused were not really from God.”

— Rachel Held Evans

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

— Henry Miller

Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront.

— Misha Green

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

— Brené Brown

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

— Tariq Ramadan

“Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.”

— Tiffany Reisz

“Guilt is a tag we attach to gifts, when we give to get something back”

— Ela Crain

“... for a man may cover his blemish, but unbind it he cannot, for where once 'tis applied, thence part will it never.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

— Hans Frank

He that is ungrateful has no guilt but one; all other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

— Edward Young

“I write because if I don’t let it out of my system, I will die with guilt.”

— Shahla Khan

“Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.”

— Geoffrey Wood

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

— Margaret Atwood

I had no sense of guilt. All during the course of the operation, I knew it was a job.

— Joseph D. Pistone