Quotes About Catholic Guilt

#1. pastors throughout the countryside around Rome had reminded their parishioners that Jesus was a Jew in order to coax them into opening their doors. Catholic guilt was a powerful tool,

Amy Harmon

#2. There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

Jack White

#3. It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

Christopher Meloni

#4. So I sit and endure the stares and the pangs and twinges of Catholic guilt, knowing that I am doing the right thing if I'm right, and the right thing even if I'm wrong. Being Catholic is hard. Being ex-Catholic is even harder.

Pete Hautman

#5. 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

#6. I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.

Jack White

#7. I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

Bono

#8. I was raised Catholic. Guilt is my resting state.

Paul Doiron

#9. I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

Grimes

#10. Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

Bradley Cooper

#11. I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

Billy Collins

#12. I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

Billy Connolly

#13. Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

Larry Wilmore

#14. I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic ... it's a multifaceted experience. If you lose the faith, chances are you'll keep the guilt, so it isn't as if you've been skunked altogether.

Janet Evanovich

#15. The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#16. Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic
you were made to feel guilty about everything

Elizabeth Strout

#17. I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Imelda Staunton

#18. I don't think you can be a Catholic without an accompanying measure of guilt.

Mia Farrow

#19. I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

Billy Connolly

#20. Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

Janet Evanovich

#21. And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

Bob Gunton

#22. I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it.

Terry Wogan

#23. My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

Mitch Albom

#24. I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Edna O'Brien

#25. I attended Catholic school. We received a great education from the nuns ... Also, guilt. Guilt and a feeling of never being satisfied with what you've done. And a sense that you are inadequate and a big phony. All useful for a writer. I'm always being edited by my inner nun.

George Saunders

#26. I grew up Catholic. I was not above guilt trips.

Dani Alexander

#27. Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt.

Matt Haig

#28. I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it.

John Densmore

#29. Guilt is the currency of the Catholic faith

Luke Gracias

#30. There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

Elayne Boosler

#31. I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Robin Williams

#32. Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

Linda Cardellini