Guilt Quotes · Page 36

If I could get angry at you, I would try to kill every one of you. If that's guilt, I accept it.

— Charles Manson

Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

— George Saunders

“Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself.”

— Annette Vaillancourt

Do not pour guilt into someone's psyche, and don't let anyone tamper with your conscience.

— Zeina

“Guilt is a Finder. It hunts and tracks us down, no matter how far we run.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other. —”

— Sara Nović

You deserve all the good things that happen to you. Don't feel guilty and accept the blessings.

— Paulo Coelho

There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

— Sophie Kinsella

What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong…

— Joseph Prince

“What’s your point, Legal?” “The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives…

— Michael Connelly

What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've…

— Jean Dujardin

Unchain yourself from the guilt that you aren’t doing something right, that you’re not leaving the “right” legacy, and BE your real…

— Wendy Keller

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as…

— Lord Byron

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the…

— A. E. Housman

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing…

— Lillian Hellman

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices…

— Salman Rushdie

Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest)…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Another thing is that, despite all the confidence I have that the loving God cannot forsake me, the closer you come to…

— Pope Benedict XVI

[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his…

— Thurgood Marshall

By raising Christ from death, God as the supreme Judge set his seal to the absolute perfection and completeness of his atoning…

— Geerhardus Vos

No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart…

— Kathie Lee Gifford

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors - sins. They are simply mistakes,…

— Rajneesh

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions,…

— Plutarch

There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add…

— Philip Caputo

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

— Christopher Moore

To live with a guilt not doing the duty is the worst self punishment.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“Shame does not have any effect on shameless or Shame does not have any effect on a shameless.”

— Ehsan Sehgal

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

— Lucan

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

— Charlie Cox

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

— Christopher Hitchens

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

— Ellyn Stern

“This shame has nothing to do with He or She. It's the being mortal - how shall I say it? ... insufficient.”

— C.S. Lewis

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

— Susan Sontag

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

— Joseph Addison

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive.

— Nora Roberts

“Now, if any fundamental assumption underlies our system, it is that guilt is personal and not inheritable.”

— Robert H. Jackson

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

— Eric Hoffer

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

— Libba Bray

“One tapped my ankle and settled there, its label turned up like an accusation.”

— Belinda Kelderhouse

“It was the first time I had ever felt guilt at finding a man attractive.”

— Tabitha McGowan