Guilt Quotes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret. — Ayelet Waldman
When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you… — David Walliams
No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made… — Alan Watts
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league.… — J C Watts
I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid… — Orson Welles
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt. — Natalie Wood
Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering. — Henny Youngman
I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her.… — Graham Greene
The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home. — Jimmy Buffett
Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and… — Aldous Huxley
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick… — Neil Gaiman
Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them… — Leonard Peltier
Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt — Anne Rice
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure. — Frank Herbert
Guilt is a rope that wears thin. — Ayn Rand
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world… — John Adams
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine — Fay Weldon
My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce. — Mitch Albom
He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you… — Michael Pollan
When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up… — John Steinbeck
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something, lie here, play with that, kiss you.… — Caroline Knapp
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and… — Simone Weil

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