Guilty Quotes
1092 quotes by 900 authors
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Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was…
— Kate Morton
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I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic…
— Georgette Heyer
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
— Anthony de Mello
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There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He…
— Jodi Picoult
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I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are…
— Elie Wiesel
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[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
— Sherman Alexie
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They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water.…
— T.H. White
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty…
— Erica Jong
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This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even…
— Deb Caletti
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Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
— Glen Cook
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Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood…
— Brennan Manning
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Since you came back from summer break, our entire relationship is about fooling around. We never talk anymore, and I'm sick of feeling guilty for…
— Simone Elkeles
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When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty…
— Ayn Rand
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Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try…
— William P. Young
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I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.
— Carolyn Parkhurst
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Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn’t feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad.
— Jenna Black
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent." -Kahlan
— Terry Goodkind
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Time for bed.†I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees…
— James Patterson
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