Guilt Quotes
1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors
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Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative…
— Betty Friedan
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Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time,
— Veronica Roth
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There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.
— Sophie Kinsella
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One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because he was incapable…
— Koushun Takami
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Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You…
— Juliet Marillier
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His guilt is why Acheron went out of his way to make sure that all of you had servants and pay for your work. The…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky…
— Kevin Hearne
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No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will…
— Dejan Stojanovic
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Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate…
— Frantz Fanon
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I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of…
— Lauren Oliver
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He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.
— Patrick deWitt
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The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have…
— Paulo Coelho
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Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt
— Christopher Moore
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we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.
— Paulo Coelho
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Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious…
— Brandon Sanderson
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the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.
— William Landay
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There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t…
— Ayn Rand
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It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and…
— Joko Beck
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You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in…
— Melina Marchetta
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Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.
— Jonathan Maberry
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The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of…
— Joyce Meyer
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We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster…
— Thomas Harris
Who Wrote These Guilt Quotes
844 authors contributed a total of 1,189 Guilt Quotes, led by these top contributors: