Guilt Quotes · Page 31

“...when life still hesitates to touch us, when neither duty nor guilt dares lay a hand upon us”

— Thomas Mann

Self-forgiveness following guilt is self-essential to esteem, which is key to enjoying life and relationships.

— Senoraroy

As parents we all have that underlying guilt about how much time we give to our careers.

— Chris Harris

“Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She’d learned that one at her mother’s knee.”

— J.D. Robb

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

— Horace

Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

— Hillary Clinton

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

— Mason Cooley

“I wash myself clean of guilt, of pain, of fear, of emotion. I am the ocean. I am empty. I am nothing.”

— Kiersten White

That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money,…

— John Lennon

“A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our…

— Pat Conroy

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its…

— Jonathan Kozol

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can…

— Sarah Zettel

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about…

— Jack Kornfield

The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must…

— John Shelby Spong

I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must…

— Ani DiFranco

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs…

— John Steinbeck

Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It…

— Deb Caletti

“Kid's don't run to get in shape; they run to feel the wind in their face and the grass beneath their feet.…

— Charlie Hoehn

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God…

— John Philpot Curran

I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or…

— Tennessee Williams

“At this point, I can no longer avoid setting out, in an initial, provisional statement, my own hypothesis about the origin of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt complex” because He…

— Fulton J. Sheen

People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something…

— Pema Chodron

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need…

— Mike Nichols

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

— Susan Sontag

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

— Juvenal

“Guilt is a useless emotion. It cuts you off at the knees and offers nothing in return.”

— Barbara Nickless

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

— Darren Shan

The wisest of people in this world are those that admit when they are wrong.

— Nishan Panwar

“It is my personal opinion that all survivors can go from victim to victor and live more than a survivor.”

— Patricia Dsouza

“Mothers, food, love, and career - the four major guilt groups.”

— Cathy Guisewite

We do not want to see teachers teaching their white pupils about white privilege and inherited racial guilt.

— Kemi Badenoch

Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.

— Louise Hay

I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

— Elie Wiesel

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

— Henri Rousseau

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

— Jimmy Buffett

“First take care of you; then you can better care for those around you. Release your guilt and take care of YOU.”

— Jackie Cantoni

“Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.”

— Kris Kidd

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

— Max Lucado

In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance.

— Ellie Krieger