Guilt Quotes · Page 30

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart”

— Orson Scott Card

“guilt comes to you not from the things you’ve done, but from the things that others have done to you.”

— Margaret Atwood

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

— Plautus

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

— Janet Evanovich

Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not.

— Mason Cooley

There's been times I've been paralyzed by guilt when I've had to work crazy hours or miss a parent-teacher interview.

— Catherine Reitman

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in…

— Patrick deWitt

“…the actions driven by fear and guilt are not an antidote to lukewarm, selfish, comfortable living. I hope you realize that the…

— Francis Chan

I had a lot of guilt as a single mother trying to raise a child. I had to go to work and…

— Sherri Shepherd

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

— Tacitus

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

— Garrison Keillor

No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster…

— Fabrizio Moreira

When we don't deal honestly with our lives and the losses we face, when we try to anesthetize the pain and move…

— Sheila Walsh

I tend to be a fairly spirited person, but I've never hated anyone more than I hated Christian Longo after his trial,…

— Michael Finkel

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would…

— Allen Tate

“One sometimes clings tightly to pain, to bitter home-sickness and bitter regret, but one forgets one's guilt; in vain, you might think…

— Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Sometimes Christians live in a terror of universal obligation: AIDS over here, people to be saved over here, a crushing sense of…

— Kevin DeYoung

You feel guilt when you're not necessarily in the best mood and you say to your fans "No, I don't want to…

— Lili Reinhart

“That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the…

— Ariel Gore

You've got all these parents who are projecting their pathologies of fear onto their kids and those kids are understandably messed up.…

— Steve Almond

“I didn’t know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free,…

— Jane Hamilton

There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and…

— William Hazlitt

The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle…

— Tom Robbins

Life has this funny and annoying way of making you feel guilty for things you failed to do.

— Michael Hayssus

“I regard an illegal non-disclosure termination agreement as an admission of guilt.”

— Steven Magee

I see the guilt through your shame, I see your soul through your window pain

— Lil Wayne

“How is it that shame affixes itself to the violated, and not to the violator?”

— Janet Benton

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

— Albert Camus

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

— Barbara Corcoran

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

— Anonymous

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

— Lillian Hellman

Can we text twice as much while driving, without the guilt? Yes, we can, if only cars will drive themselves.

— Sebastian Thrun

Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.

— Leslie Jamison

“Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest."-Lo-The Wild Hunt”

— Ashley Jeffery

We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

— William Shakespeare

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

— Cathy Guisewite

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

— Woody Allen

“I will not be guilted or shamed into being something I am not.”

— The Thoughtful Beast

“Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle”

— Leah Braemel