Guilt Quotes · Page 23

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

— Audre Lorde

“Children are naive, they don’t possess enough skills to be able to recognize the balance between the truth and a lie.”

— Patricia Dsouza

The guilt of breaking someones heart will haunt you for the rest of your life.

— Anonymous

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

— Aeschylus

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

— Deepak Chopra

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

— William Congreve

If you give up the guilt, that's a huge load off your shoulders.

— Indra Nooyi

There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

— Bill Watterson

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

“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

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated…

— Robin Sloan

“To me, the words “food” and “guilt” didn’t belong in the same sentence unless, say, you were referring to how you felt…

— Kate Madison

“I turn away, tempted to punch the glass. I'm in the gratest danger of my life, and I'm playing with my hair…

— Shannon Messenger

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would…

— John Piper

“Then you haven't lost your soul. Only a creature with a soul can tell the difference between right and wrong. Yes, you've…

— Sylvain Reynard

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are…

— Edmund Burke

What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of…

— Roger Kimball

“Guilt is our morality shame and guards our conscience. It tells us we have transgressed our values. It moves us to take…

— John Bradshaw

“When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel…

— Tyler Edwards

The rewards of integrity are immeasurable. One is the indescribable inner peace and serenity that come from knowing we are doing what…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I…

— Amy Adams

Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“I am not exactly wallowing in guilt at the moment, but guilt is guilt.It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”

— Patricia Dsouza

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

— Plautus

“But Julia wouldn’t know what was good for her if it jumped up and bit her on the ass.” ”

— Diane L. Kowalyshyn

“Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The Pain will end, But the Guilt will kill you before the night ends.

— Anonymous

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

— Paulo Coelho

“Doing good to someone in order to reduce self-guilt will only ruin things for both of you.”

— Vernon Howard

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

— Voltaire

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things…

— Larry Wilmore

Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

— V. S. Pritchett

“A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

— Rachel Held Evans

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

— Anonymous

I say sorry a lot. Mostly because I feel like everything is my fault.

— Me XD