Feeling guilty Quote by Nathan Rabin

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

— Eileen Wilks

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

— Gregory Boyle

“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 is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.”

— Gregg Hurwitz

“Guilt is a self-indulgence.”

— Marian Keyes

“For so many years I thought my life was difficult; I thought I understood what it meant to suffer. But this. This is something…

— Tahereh Mafi

“I’ve gotten pretty good at making myself feel ashamed. I can even use shame in a theoretical sense to make myself do the right…

— Allie Brosh

“Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved it.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.”

— Petrarch

“One thing I’ve learned in my program is that guilt is a wasted emotion, you know? Look back on the past but don’t stare.”

— Wally Lamb

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

— Marilyn J. Sorensen

“I am not sure that digging in our past guilts is a useful occupation for the very old, given that one can do so…

— Diana Athill