Guilt Quotes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy. — Emily Giffin
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt… — Oliver Goldsmith
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the… — Germaine Greer
Rescuing women from their burden of unwarranted guilt is going to require 'educational practices and socializing agents' even more effective than the ones that have… — Germaine Greer
Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. — Cathy Guisewite
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. — William Cowper
When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate… — Benedict Cumberbatch
December 25th has become guilt and obligation. — Phil Donahue
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to… — Rita Dove
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. — Henry Fielding
When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal… — Angie Harmon
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt. — Janet Jackson
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. — Thomas Jefferson
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in… — Angelina Jolie
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living… — E. Stanley Jones
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. — Erica Jong
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. — Franz Kafka
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree… — Franz Kafka
The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured. — Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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. It sounds much… — Keira Knightley
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. — Alfred Korzybski
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. — Jonathan Kozol
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people… — R. D. Laing

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