Best Guilt Qoutes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal… — John Dufresne
Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul… — Matthew Scully
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting… — Tom Hodgkinson
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. — Tom Hodgkinson
No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future — Umar
It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of works. True spirituality… — Richard Lovelace
It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part… — Kate Morton
Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine… — Kay Redfield Jamison
For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true… — Hilary of Poitiers
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action. — Audre Lorde
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith... — Anton Szandor LaVey
Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness… — Bill Griffith
[Jurors who are opposed to capital punishment are] more likely to believe that a defendant's failure to testify is indicative of his guilt, more hostile… — Thurgood Marshall
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks. — Ovid
That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in… — Joe Abercrombie
Nothing about his life is more strange to [man] or more unaccountable in purely mundane terms than the stirrings he finds in himself, usually fitful… — Lewis Mumford
I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is guilt in every… — Don McCullin
Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown -- but the present is real, and your opportunities are now. You must… — Maxwell Maltz
Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do… — Paulo Coelho
"It almost always happens that people enjoy a few moments and then afterwards feel very guilty. The guilt arises because of the ego. The ego… — Rajneesh
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each… — John Milton
Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you… — James Autry
But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves… — A. E. Housman
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit… — Hannah Arendt
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. — Audre Lorde

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