Guilt Quotes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in… — Philip K. Dick
Instead of relief or gratitude, more guilt washes over me. Andy's certainly not faultless - no one ever is in a marriage — Emily Giffin
Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. — Dean Koontz
All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her… — Toni Morrison
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned… — Ayn Rand
Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of… — Holly Lisle
Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your… — Ellen Hopkins
I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit… — Philippa Gregory
I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,… — May Sarton
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does… — Ayn Rand
So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip of… — Janet Fitch
A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if… — Margaret Atwood
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! — Edgar Allan Poe
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd… — Janet Fitch
Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable. — Janet Evanovich
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited… — Alberto Manguel
I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love. — P.D. James
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. — Susan Sontag
When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt. — Libba Bray
She looks at the swings, and I can see she’s imagining what they’d look like if the kids weren’t there. The guilt of this holds… — Markus Zusak
We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief.… — Gregory Maguire
And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I thing everything he… — Khaled Hosseini
I know my head isn't screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over… — Laurie Halse Anderson
She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness. — Tina St. John
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or… — Rick Riordan

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