Guilt Quotes · Page 32

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

— Jean Racine

“the degree to which a client pushes back on the retainer is inversely proportional to their guilt.”

— Adam Mitzner

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A genuine sorry is driven by self guilt, A man is not sorry until he feels guilty”

— Karanja peter

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

— Samuel Johnson

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

— David D. Burns

whenever I would feel such happiness my guilt alarm went off

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Uncovering secrets is apocalyptic in the simple sense (the Greek root means ‘an uncovering’). In this case, it lifts the shame covers.…

— Lewis Hyde

“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done…

— Tryon Edwards

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no…

— Julie Berry

“She felt for a moment the child's guilt and panic that she was to blame for something-for finally getting to know him.…

— Kevin Brockmeier

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of…

— Norm MacDonald

“Unfortunately, accomplishments do not reduce internalized shame. In fact, the more one achieves, the more one has to achieve. Toxic shame is…

— John Bradshaw

My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Chances are that he’s experiencing a great deal of guilt and self-loathing. Someone needs to help him come to terms with that.…

— Lisa Gardner

“When children have shame-based parents, they identify with them. This is the first step in the child’s internalizing shame because the children…

— John Bradshaw

Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good,…

— Lino Rulli

So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence…

— Harold Lasswell

“Guilty people apologize and also take steps to avoid repetition. Shame, in contrast, is a more global emotion, which can emerge in…

— Peter N. Stearns

“Ah, guilt. One of the most painful human emotions that one can experience. Even without the burden of an illness, guilt is…

— Jennifer Corter

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

— Daniel Nayeri

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

— Patrick Chappatte

She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

— Anna Quindlen

Dont feel guilty for a crime you have not committed commit it and be guilt free

— Amit Abraham

“They illustrate that since no one really loves or cares for them, why should they love or care for themselves?”

— Patricia Dsouza

Forgive yourself. For your pain caused others to realize the reality of life.

— Nayely Saldana

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, it seems, we're [Christians] perceived more as guilt dispensers than as grace dispensers.

— Philip Yancey

“What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.”

— John Corwin

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

— Bill Konigsberg

I didn't cry cause she told me she loved me. I cried because I didn't.

— Francisco Quinonez

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

— Kevin Kline