Quotes About Guilt And Silence

#1. Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

Erica Jong

#2. Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

Jimmy Fallon

#3. Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.

Mary Alice Monroe

#4. When I look in the mirror, I see about a thousand different Jadas.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#5. Racism defends our greed, frees us from self-control and makes others responsible for our failings. It is an attempt to silence the guilt so we can look in the mirror.

Mari Serebrov

#6. A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

Khaled Hosseini

#7. So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me
the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

Jessica Sorensen

#8. To succeed, you must first believe you can.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#9. When silence greeted her question, she looked at Caine - for that was how he saw himself in that moment and in all the moments after: his brother's murderer.

V.S. Carnes

#10. Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

John Dryden

#11. Love is the universal language.

A.D. Posey

#12. I thrive on production. It feels very much like a natural environment for me.

Kathryn Bigelow

#13. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

B.G. Bowers

#14. All that either of us has is right now and we should pay attention to that.

Radha Mitchell

#15. There was no echo, no reverberation. If anything the room ate sound. It swallowed her voice, her words, and her eternal, inadequate apology. But not her memories. She would never be rid of those.

Laini Taylor

#16. When you look at life think in terms of karate. But remember that karate is not only karate
it is life.

Gichin Funakoshi

#17. Silence, shame, guilt, or any other emotional torment simply cannot rob us of God's love, of his plan for us.

Jo Ann Fore

#18. If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

Paul Fussell

#19. Like hatred, guilt can't be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

Shannon L. Alder

#20. My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.

Spotted Tail

#21. The men were making too much noise, laughing, joking, to cover her terrible accusing silence below. She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust go guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about.

Ray Bradbury

#22. Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

John Dryden

#23. His silence says so much. I can almost reach out and touch the guilt growing on his shoulders.

Tahereh Mafi

#24. The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

Clay Shirky