Guilt Quotes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms… — P.D. James
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and… — Malcolm Lowry
I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code… — Harper Lee
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they… — Pema Chodron
Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the… — Gregory Maguire
Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish.… — Albert Camus
It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the… — Christopher Moore
Her visits to her former hometown were infrequent and often painful. Pilgrimages fueled by the tepid oxygen of family duty, unease, guilt. The more Esther… — Joyce Carol Oates
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt. — Franz Kafka
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is… — Wendy Mass
never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it — Kevin Brooks
Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip! — Jimmy Buffett
Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates… — P. C. Cast
But guilt is guilt. It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified. It can't even be fully understood, I'm certain - it's roots run too… — J D Salinger
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who… — Helene Hanff
And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. — Anna Godbersen
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by… — Milan Kundera
Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse. — Bill Watterson
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble… — Anna Sewell
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. — William Shakespeare
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. — Evan Esar
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;… — Michelangelo
We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most.… — Susan Fletcher
How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime. — Ian Mcewan

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