I Felt Guilty Quotes

#1. I felt guilty because I was upset by the loss of one friend when the Old Man had lost nearly everyone he loved. Loss, I soon learned from him, is not measured in numbers. It's not comparative. It's in here. I'm touching my chest now.

Michele Young-Stone

#2. I felt guilty because I survived.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#3. I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

John Perkins

#4. I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

Miuccia Prada

#5. When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

Barbra Streisand

#6. It moved me that he would say he'd kill for me, except that he might actually mean it and then I was still moved but then I felt guilty about it.

Laurelin Paige

#7. Savannah sometimes sounded a lot like the little voice that had taken up residence in my head but never bothered paying rent, and right now it whispered that if I felt guilty, maybe I was doing something wrong.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

Mike Farrell

#9. When it comes to cooking, five years ago I felt guilty "just adding water." Now I want to bang the tube against the countertop and have a five-course meal pop out. If it comes with plastic silverware and a plate that self-destructs, all the better.

Erma Bombeck

#10. I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

Valerie Trierweiler

#11. I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.

Carole Bouquet

#12. During that first year, I felt guilty that my wife was out working bringing in all our income, while I was at home playing on the computer, so I made myself treat writing like a job.

George Stephen

#13. What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

Umberto Eco

#14. Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason ... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

Waylon Jennings

#15. Rather than feeling vindicated, I felt guilty. It seemed cruel, and all my fault, somehow. My relationship with my mother had always brought into question any sense I had of myself as a good and decent person. [p. 128]

Dani Shapiro

#16. I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on.

Meredith Russo

#17. What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.

John Mole

#18. I needed to give back, give back, give back. I felt guilty about my success. I felt uncomfortable about how easily I had been delivered this extraordinary life that I had.

Pete Townshend

#19. I truly realized that health is a precious, fragile gift. We are all guilty of taking it for granted. I felt so guilty that it took something like this to make me realize what was important.

Lisa Wainland

#20. When I'm having good sex, I'm the happiest, least violent person on earth. If people had more and better sex and felt less guilty about it, we'd live in a much better world."
"I am happy to help you in your quest to fuck for world peace."
"I'll take you up on that offer.

Tiffany Reisz

#21. Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that ... "

Sasha Grey

#22. I always felt really guilty if I spent too much time playing video games. It's a colossal waste of time. And I can't say it's a very satisfying feeling at the end of the day, if you've spent eight hours playing a video game; you just end up feeling kind of spent, and used.

John C. Reilly

#23. When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

Peter Eisenman

#24. It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood that I was guilty.

Albert Camus

#25. What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

Linda Vester

#26. Maybe I was tired and irritable. Maybe I felt a little guilty. I could learn to hate this guy without even knowing him. I could just look at him across the width of a cafeteria and want to kick his teeth in.

Raymond Chandler

#27. Tears spilled won my cheeks as I felt renewed disappointment. "You keep hurting me."
He had the decency to look guilty. "I don't mean to.

Samantha Young

#28. My arm was not the one she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else. I felt almost guilty being me.

Haruki Murakami

#29. I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the hell? Anybody who wanders around the world saying, "Hell yes, I'm from Texas," deserves whatever happens to him.

Hunter S. Thompson

#30. Word like that, others' opinions of you, shouldn't have that kind of power, Saint. But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people's words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought.

Jay Crownover

#31. I had felt guilty but honored. Genevieve liked me best. We were close,closer than with anyone else. The bracelets were proof. How cheaply I was bought then, with just a bracelet made out of string.

Jenny Han

#32. I wasn't athletic and had no desire to work out, so I watched what I ate. Correction: I ate what I wanted and felt guilty about it later.

Megan Miranda

#33. I have felt over the years a definite progression or arc from feeling guilty about what I had done with the first one [film], because certainly there was all that fundamentalist guilt that came pouring back in.

Wes Craven

#34. I wanted it, then felt guilty for wanting water when my friends were going to kill each other.

Kim Harrison

#35. I try to learn something from every character I take on. I try to better myself personally from it and Red allowed me to go ahead and accept what I did. Even though I had passion driving me, I still felt a little guilty that I gave up all the businesses in the pursuit of happiness.

Drew Waters

#36. Because I'd rather fell guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear - Tess's Mother

Rosamund Lupton

#37. Because I'd rather feel guilty for the rest of my life than for her to have felt a second's fear.

Rosamund Lupton

#38. If one person starts crying, I'll cry. If one person has no money, I'll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.

Rose McGowan

#39. Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#40. I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

Patrick Rothfuss

#41. It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

Stephen Chbosky

#42. It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.

Jeff Lindsay

#43. I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#44. The days after that, I felt so many different things, sad, angry. Guilty, but for the mostly just numb, like part of me was dead.

Alex Flinn

#45. That radicalism (of the '70s) was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.

John Lennon

#46. Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I was doing my best in the way of mimicry.

Vladimir Nabokov

#47. I have never felt guilty of my ability. I have never felt guilty of my mind. I have never felt guilty of being a man. I accepted no unearned guilt, and thus was free to earn and to know my own value.

Ayn Rand

#48. This sad, extreme example is more common than you might think. I have known daughters who felt tremendous relief when their narcissistic mothers passed away. They feel delivered out from under a huge burden, but guilty about admitting it.

Karyl McBride

#49. We were just so bad at being together. He felt as guilty as I felt pathetic, and it made us closer, for a while.

Lindy West

#50. I always felt guilty. My whole life.

Ingrid Bergman

#51. Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make.

Mayim Bialik

#52. When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

Valerie June