Guilt Quotes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt. — Ethan Gilsdorf
So long as we insist upon defining our identities only in terms of our work, so long as we try to blind ourselves to the… — Danielle Crittenden
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which. — Kevin Kline
I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the… — Justin Long
Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are. — Bill Konigsberg
The chess world is obligated to organize a match between the champion of the world and the winner of this Carlsbad tournament - indeed, this… — Aron Nimzowitsch
I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you… — Kyra Sedgwick
Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements — Richard G. Scott
I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central… — Dwight Yoakam
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them. — Seneca the Younger
Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an… — Gay Talese
The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom.… — Arthur Miller
Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions… — Henry Fielding
The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around… — Robert Jay Lifton
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles… — Ayn Rand
...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush. — Hannah Kent
Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I was very young when I prepared those prints. I suspect the reason I couldn't celebrate the floating world was that I couldn't bring myself… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place… — Richard Russo
There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free— indeed, sanctimonious— way for progressives to be racists. — P.J. O'Rourke
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level. — Charles James
To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic… — Naomi Wolf

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