Top 100 Quotes About Guilt
#1. Don't let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future.
Todd Stocker
#2. Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams
#5. All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
Plautus
#6. When he says we're forgiven, let's unload the guilt. When he says we're valuable, let's believe him ... When he says we're provided for, let's stop worrying. God's efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless
Max Lucado
#7. Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
Bill Griffith
#8. It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. Some people would agonise over minor slips or mistakes on their part, while others would feel quite unmoved by their own gross acts of betrayal or dishonesty.
Alexander McCall Smith
#9. Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Peter McWilliams
#10. It's okay to feel bad about how things went down, but it's not okay to drown in guilt and regret every day for having made decisions other people don't agree with. At some point, we all have to man up and decide to do what we have to do, despite the people around us who try to get in the way.
M-E Girard
#11. I had to make the most of it; I had to make the most of me. There could be no slack, anywhere, not in my time, not in my head, not across my skin. If there were any, the guilt wouldn't bear thinking about.
Chrissie Wellington
#12. Lawyers had abolished the simple concept of right and wrong, turning it into degrees of guilt.
Peter F. Hamilton
#13. Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
Andy Stanley
#14. But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren't for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all.
I told on them.
I was jealous.
God forgive me, for I have sinned.
Lauren Oliver
#15. Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.
Paulo Coelho
#16. Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring ... It's the next best thing to being there.
Ellyn Stern
#17. As a motivation - for humans, but Christians especially - guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that.
Geoffrey Wood
#18. Only when we see both the freeness and the cost of forgiveness will we get relief from the guilt as well as liberation from the power of sin in our lives.
Timothy Keller
#19. Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.
Cassandra Clare
#20. Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.
Ayn Rand
#21. It's worse for you. You want the guilt to absolve you. Just like you want your wife and child to absolve you. Once absolved, you can kill or take soup.
Audrey Magee
#22. There was nothing inherently guilty about the moment except that Gansey burned with guilt and thrill and desire and the nebulous feeling of being truly known. It was on the inside of him, and the inside was all Noah ever really paid attention to.
Maggie Stiefvater
#23. Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?
Julie Otsuka
#24. To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.
Samuel Johnson
#25. Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.
Meda Chesney-Lind
#26. If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to stand there and say, 'I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.
Eddie Izzard
#27. Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.
David D. Burns
#28. How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless?
Janny Wurts
#29. What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.
John Corwin
#30. Guilt, in other words, isn't always wasted. It can keep us from making the same mistake twice.
Nicholas Sparks
#31. The more guilt and shame that we have buried within ourselves, the more compelled we feel to seek relief through sin.
Brennan Manning
#32. Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.
Neale Donald Walsch
#33. Guilt has got a power; it never leaves us until it sorts out with the actual pain
D.N. Joshi
#34. The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#35. If guilt's a luxury, then I'm a plutocrat.
Fritz Leiber
#36. Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.
Norman Reedus
#37. A murderer's guilt is easier to hide than feelings of love. Midday is like nighttime for love - that's how brightly passion shines.
William Shakespeare
#38. There are humans versus humans in a jungle of predators; humans full of judgment, full of blame, full of guilt, full of emotional poison - envy, anger, hate, sadness, suffering. We create all these little demons in our mind because we have learned to dream hell in our own life.
Miguel Ruiz
#39. Let me show you what life is like lived in the moment. No past, no future, just the one perfect moment you're standing in and there's no guilt and there's no shame and there's absolutely nothing to be afraid of ...
Tiffany Reisz
#40. The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.
David Allen
#41. When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face
Thomas Southerne
#42. Hate destroys, love builds: be a creator. Fear closes, love opens: be an advocate for life. Guilt stagnates, love permits: be a peaceful warrior. Anger takes away, love gives: be a foundation for life. A defeatist attitude makes its own bed while love has the power to design its very own house.
Madelaine Standing
#43. If he was able to make her feel even the slightest bit of guilt for being so oblivious - if he could get through all that makeup and high fashion.
Matthew Quick
#44. Phil and Hannah had decided that Christian guilt was better than bad math
Rhoda Janzen
#45. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.
John Steinbeck
#46. One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood.
Albert Camus
#47. Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth
and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.
Malcolm Lowry
#48. Christianity is constantly in danger of being hijacked by people who act out in hatred - by people who will not even hear the cries of their victims, let alone own up to their guilt.
Christina Engela
#49. Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#50. I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it
Steve Aylett
#51. This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want to be left out of their confraternity of guilt.
Theresa Breslin
#52. I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood
#53. The same hand that stilled the seas stills your guilt.
The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses your heart.
The hand is the hand of God.
The nail is the nail of God.
And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nail, the doors of heaven opened for you.
Max Lucado
#54. I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.
George Ryan
#55. Don't lose sleep over things you cannot change! Wash away guilt - it's not worth it.
Denise Austin
#56. I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
Hedy Lamarr
#58. Brenda found his hand, squeezed it. Once again, Thomas felt a ridiculous surge of guilt, like he was cheating on Teresa. He couldn't help that this girl was so touchy-feely.
James Dashner
#60. I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.
Jeanne Moreau
#61. Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.
Hanif Kureishi
#63. What to do next? Keep moving. Leave behind the past, the fears, the guilt, and lose myself in the new. With movement, there's action. And with action, perhaps there are answers. For
Kamal Ravikant
#64. 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
#66. The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its participants. Revolving around it are issues most decisive to thought reform's outcome.
Robert Jay Lifton
#67. The guilt and the worry had already worn off by the time his head hit the pillow, and all that was left was the happiness.
Maggie Stiefvater
#69. I used to feel a lot of guilt about having depression but then I realized that's a lot like feeling guilty for having brown hair.
Jenny Lawson
#70. The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.
Rollo May
#71. Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.
Sarah Ruhl
#72. He takes the guilt and responsibility that others can't. John takes the punches. I just take the hunger, and most times it feels like awful little.
A.C. Gaughen
#73. Succumbing to a lifetime of guilt is just another form of approval addiction. ARE
Joyce Meyer
#74. And I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief, up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.
Veronica Roth
#75. The agreement is so strong that even if we understand the concept of it not being true, we feel the blame, the guilt, and the shame that occur if we go against these rules.
Miguel Ruiz
#76. With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience, shame becomes immorality or neurotic guilt. The conforming child believes he can do nothing right,
John Bradshaw
#77. John Proctor's flaw is his failure, until the last moment, to distinguish guilt from responsibility; America's is to believe that it is at the same time both guilty and without flaw.
Arthur Miller
#78. The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#79. This wasn't instinct," the man - Adam - countered. "This was guilt, Ivy." "I'm not debating this with you." "Evidence would suggest you are.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#80. Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character! EL
Evinda Lepins
#81. Sloppy script and felt a pang of guilt. She started to close the notebook but paused in thought. It didn't feel right. It didn't seem ... truthful. With a heavy hand and a heavy heart, she added in parentheses
Chanda Hahn
#82. I may not believe in sin," he said, "but I do feel guilt. We Shadowhunters live by a code, and that code isn't flexible. Honor, fault, penance, those are real to us, and they have nothing to do with religion and everything to do with who we are. This is who I am, Clary," he said desperately.
Cassandra Clare
#83. Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
#84. Fear and guilt are your enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By choosing to. It's that simple.
Donald L. Hicks
#85. He had not escaped the guilt, nor forgotten it, but how pale it seemed in light of all he had suffered for love of his brother and his brother's wife in these past few years.
Leigh Bristol
#86. The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.
Anais Nin
#87. I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.
Amy Adams
#88. Her grief for both of them was flavored with guilt the way salt flavors the sea; she could taste it in the tears.
Sharon Cameron
#89. I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.
Loudon Wainwright III
#90. I wonder why our life must quiver between beauty and guilt, consummation and sadness, desire and regret, immortality and tattered moments unknowable, truth and beautiful meaningful lies.
Jack Kerouac
#91. When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love.
Katy Kauffman
#92. The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which "God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.
Thomas Merton
#93. No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
Rand Paul
#94. When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.
Frank Pittman
#95. Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.
Stefan Molyneux
#96. Mistakes make us human; don't torture yourself over a choice you made four years ago. If you think you were wrong, make a plan to change what you can. Action is good. Choices are good. But guilt on its own never fixed anyone's problem.
Darcy Coates
#97. I noticed that he laid stress on my "intelligence." It puzzled me rather why what would count as a good point in an ordinary person should be used against an accused man as an overwhelming proof of his guilt.
Albert Camus
#98. We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
Deepak Chopra
#99. They maintain this guilty, defiant refusal to engage: I know you're out there; I know it's awful and I'm safe inside, but I suffered too, so let me just read my Kindle without bloody guilt-tripping me, OK?
Sophie Kinsella
#100. Coffee is for winners, go-getters, tea-ignorers, lunch-cancellers, early-risers, guilt-ridden strivers, money obsessives and status-driven spiritually empty lunatics. It is an enervating force. We should resist it and embrace tea, the ancient drink of poets, philosophers and meditators.
Tom Hodgkinson
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