Guilt Quotes · Page 37

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

— Eknath Easwaran

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

— John Steinbeck

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

— William Congreve

Bend of your head due to your innocent is bettet than the Bend of your head due to Shame.

— Ritu Ghatourey

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

— Robin Morgan

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

— Stefan Zweig

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

— Khalil Gibran

If you don't want to live in guilt clean up whatever mess you've made as best you can and move on.

— Kishore Bansal

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Soon she'd spot the bruise behind the inflection. I blamed her for not seeing the bruise so I wouldn't be blamed for…

— André Aciman

Drowning in my guilt just slit my throat with your knife and let the blood poor and tilt , Pouring into a…

— Sleepy Himself

Maybe under all that guilt and certainty that he couldn't love again, he still wanted me. I would have liked to have…

— Richelle Mead

“Though he felt a little guilt over disappearing, it wasn't even guilt, just sadness over not even wanting to call her.”

— Catherine Lacey

I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which…

— R. Scott Bakker

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as…

— Thomas Francis Meagher

Those who are constantly accusing their partners of cheating are often the ones who are doing the dirty deed themselves.

— Anonymous

“I couldn’t say exactly what it was he’d taken. I only knew I was different now. I’d watched him murder a man…

— Liliana Hart

A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt...…

— Aldis Hodge

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all…

— Eckhart Tolle

I certainly don't feel any more super than any of the other people I knew in my working life... Quite the reverse.…

— Jennifer Rowe

Trump's behavior is conscienceless, showing utter disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, callousness, cynicism and disrespect of other human beings.…

— George T. Conway III

“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not…

— Khalil Gibran

Even though I avoid buying clothes that are 'in fashion', choosing things I fall in love with and wearing them till they…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“I think shame is the most profound of all emotions; I think the world is ruled by shame.”

— J.R. Salamanca

Most of the time when people act out of defense, it's because they're guilty about something.

— Anonymous

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

— Frank Moore Colby

Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.

— Robert Reich

Shake off what didn't work out. Shake off the guilt. Move forward with your life.

— Aray

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

— Ayn Rand

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

— Max Frisch

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

— Stephen Hawking

Write down what you feel guilty about. Now, with the biggest, reddest marker you can find, cross it out-delete it.

— Sue Thoele

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life”

— Lynette Gould

“Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.”

— Carroll Bryant

Whenever I made a mistake or a sin, as long as I am happy at that very moment. I felt no guilt…

— Yvonne

Saying Sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt and forgiving doesn't mean the pain is gone.

— Anonymous

“We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our…

— Susan Hill

we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

— Muriel Spark