Guilt Quotes · Page 26

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

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

— Roger Mahony

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

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

— Christopher Moore

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

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

— Eric Hoffer

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

— Nora Roberts

“The mind fabricates and believes in whatever it wants to conclude is true because of what occurs on the spur of the…

— Patricia Dsouza

“To think that you don’t have a choice is actually a choice that’s an attempt to relieve you of the guilt of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around…

— Annabel Pitcher

“First, guilt-tripping doesn’t work as a campaigning strategy. If you make people feel bad about what they do, you must give them…

— Mark Lynas

“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us…

— Sharon Salzberg

“I don't think anyone could write a completely honest autobiography. I am sure no one could bear to read it: My Past…

— William S. Burroughs

The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its…

— Robert Jay Lifton

The German people of today bear no guilt. Why are the German people not permitted the right to defend themselves? Why are…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don’t…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

If mythic violence is lawmaking, divine violence is law-destroying; if the former sets boundaries, the latter boundlessly destroys them; if mythic violence…

— Walter Benjamin

“Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it?" She bit…

— J.D. Robb

When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and…

— Jennifer James

One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People"…

— Samantha Hunt

“Guilt, Ameline discovered, was a terrible, unruly think, like toothache - dull nagging, persistent, never far from attention. Just when you got…

— Lesley Lokko

“I dislike guilt." the Morrigan said." it is regret and recrimination and despair over that which cannot be changed. It is like…

— Kevin Hearne

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

— Robert H. Jackson

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

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

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

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

— Lucan

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

— Ehsan Sehgal

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

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

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

— Eknath Easwaran

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

— Tabitha McGowan

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

— Belinda Kelderhouse