Guilt Quotes
1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors
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There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We don't need to…
— Unknown Author
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Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed…
— Deepak Chopra
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing,…
— Harold Lasswell
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased
— Hans Frank
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We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate,…
— Paulo Coelho
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Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
— Euripides
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I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.
— George Ryan
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As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds…
— Mark Epstein
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There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them;…
— Matthew Henry
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Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their…
— Ellen Gilchrist
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Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out, and through the small compass of the grated window,…
— Charles Dickens
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All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
— C.S. Lewis
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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
— Elias Canetti
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I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I…
— Fred Rogers
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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms…
— Ben Hecht
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Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy…
— Michelle Kwan
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I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.
— Maya Rudolph
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Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that…
— Drew Carey
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
— Felicity Huffman
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I'm happiest at home hanging out with the kids... Having a family has been my saving grace because I don't work back to back on…
— Jude Law
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Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.
— Arthur Mitchell
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I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.
— Edward Burns
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