“The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Compulsion is a behaviour that short-circuits you out of feeling ashamed, and then you feel triple-ashamed afterwards. — Arca Copy Share Image
Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Don't let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future.” — Todd Stocker Copy Share Image
But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent! — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I'm on my own so I do everything. I think with any mum, guilt is a major factor. You feel guilty dropping… — Laila Rouass Copy Share Image
One part of love is innocence One part of love is guilt One part the milk that in a sense Is soured… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those… — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought. — Kenneth L. Woodward Copy Share Image
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven.… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Guilt simply says that you are a sinner. And the feeling of shame simply shows you that you need not be a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
His guilt is why Acheron went out of his way to make sure that all of you had servants and pay for… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
“For too many women in America are becoming sick with exhaustion and stress as they try to do things that can't be… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part,… — William Booth Copy Share Image
. . . an absurd problem came to the surface: 'How COULD God permit that (crucifixion of Jesus Christ)!' . . .… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The god she could outrun, but the guilt was already catching up to her.” — J-F Dubeau Copy Share Image
“You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone's poor choices.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. — Horace Copy Share Image
“We require to get out of our own built up Cocoons, these need to be worn, softened and freed through.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
In a court of law, you're innocent until proven guilty. In a relationship, you're guilty until proven innocent! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
What would become of the world if the condemned started to confide their heartaches to the executioners? — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. — Natalie Wood Copy Share Image
“I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man’s chest.” — Kristen Hope Mazzola Copy Share Image
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image