Guilt Quotes · Page 31

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

— Brené Brown

“there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation.”

— Frederick Forsyth

“Beetles never stop. They gnaw silently and relentlessly. Guilt is like that too.”

— Gregg Olsen

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

— Harold S. Kushner

It's fucked up when people throw things from your past in your face.

— Anonymous

We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.

— Melody Beattie

“I touched curiosity, I kissed sin, I felt regret, And I was forgiven. But life won't let me forget.”

— J.A. ANUM

Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.

— Alyson Noel

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the…

— Willard Gaylin

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to…

— Teri Hatcher

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of…

— Anonymous

I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their…

— Ellen Page

If it is impossible to judge merit and guilt in the field of natural science, then it is not possible in any…

— Justus von Liebig

“That's the thing about guilt," his father said. "It always seems like there's enough to go around. The only ones who don't…

— Cinda Williams Chima

“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely”

— Patricia Dsouza

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He…

— Joel Osteen

“And if we all have shame, the good news is that we’re all capable of developing shame resilience. Shame resilience is the…

— Brené Brown

We can think about how we reduce the pain in paying. So, for example, credit cards are wonderful mechanisms to reduce the…

— Dan Ariely

“There's something I never told you about that decision I made four years ago...I've never felt a middle ground between acceptance and…

— Tammara Webber

The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also…

— George Orwell

The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its…

— Njabulo S Ndebele

“I know what he’s doing, what he’s getting at. And I understand it. I understand guilt. But when I nod my head…

— M. Leighton

As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt,…

— Laura Moser

Charity is to unburden you from your guilt, so you say, 'I am doing something: I going to open a hospital, going…

— Rajneesh

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

— Anonymous

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

— Ethan Gilsdorf

“...if we feel guilt, if we believe it in our own minds, that's what's true to us.”

— Heather Graham

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

— Adena Friedman

“Religious guilt will never grow the kind of love you want in someone.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“I won't cry. When the guilt is this heavy, you can't. It just settles and stays with you, and it's cold.”

— Bethany Griffin

The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt.

— Antonin Scalia

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.

— Swami Nithyananda

I like to shoot feature films because it's about capturing emotions... words like guilt, hurt, betrayal.

— Rajiv Menon

Regrets are just a way for the foolish and the guilty to pass the time

— Gensoumaden Saiyuki

“Abused children as they grow to believe that they are damaged beyond repair.”

— Patricia Dsouza

I have enough on my plate between cooking and my dad guilting me.

— Po - The Dragon Warrior

Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

— Paulo Coelho

“The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free.”

— David Sedaris

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

— Abraham Verghese

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

— Isabelle Holland