Guilt Quote by K.M. Golland

“Guilt is like a sore, endlessly fascinating, and the guilty party feels compelled to examine it and pick at it, so that it never…

— Stephen King

“Guilt, of course, is feeling bad about one's actions, but shame is feeling bad about oneself.”

— Gregory Boyle

“Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily”

— Deborah McKinlay

“Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion”

— Lynn Crilly

“Guilt is an outward expression of self degradation. It is acceptance of one’s culpability, indiscretion, liability, sin, dereliction, and harm without resolving the crime,…

— Deborah Bravandt

“Guilt is not a healthy emotion. It rots you from the inside out, turns you bitter.”

— Blair Richmond

“Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind. 'Seeking the Heart of…

— Joseph Goldstein

“The way it works in real life is that guilt is proportionate. In other words, there are degrees of guilt.”

— Lisa Scottoline

“Feelings are not always a guide to truth, and guilt is an indulgence you cannot afford. It clouds the mind.”

— Eileen Wilks

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

— Horace Bushnell

“Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

“Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.”

— Marilyn J. Sorensen