Guilt Quotes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt. — Robert H. Schuller
I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try… — Channing Tatum
There is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do… — Samuel Johnson
To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any… — Samuel Johnson
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence. — Juvenal
The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country. — Thomas Paine
Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,… — James A. Baldwin
I've got enough guilt to start my own religion. — Tori Amos
The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a… — Norman Mailer
I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip… — Dan Greenburg
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't. — Alan Cohen
So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be… — Horace Mann
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. — Edna O'Brien
There may be guilt when there is too much virtue. — Jean Racine
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine
Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the… — Luigi Pirandello
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen.… — Albert Ellis
The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a… — Ramakrishna
The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive. — Jonathan Raban
Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace with our conscience.… — Glenn R. Schiraldi
We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt… — Frederick Lenz
I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop. — Jodi Sweetin
Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in… — Sebastian Thrun
There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really… — Jack White

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