Guilt famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.
-- A. E. Housman -
What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.
-- Abraham Maslow -
...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
-- Abraham Verghese -
It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.
-- Adrian Lyne -
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
-- Aeschylus -
Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger.
-- Alan Cohen -
One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.
-- Alan Watts -
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 -
Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
-- Albert Camus -
But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
-- Albert Camus -
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.
-- Albert Camus -
God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.
-- Albert Camus -
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
-- Albert Ellis -
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!
-- Alexander Pope -
I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. - Julia Louis
-- Alfred Dreyfus -
We all want to be guilty, because guilt is power.
-- Alison Lurie -
Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.
-- Alyson Noel -
If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.
-- Amy Dickinson -
Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.
-- Anais Nin -
It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt.
-- Anderson Cooper -
For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt must be redistributed.
-- Andrew Sandlin -
Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.
-- Andrew Wommack -
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
-- Andy Behrman -
Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.
-- Andy Dick -
Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.
-- Andy Stanley -
When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.
-- Angie Harmon -
We were not born with guilt nor obligation. When you give in to guilt, you endorse it.
-- Anita Moorjani -
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
-- Anna Godbersen -
She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.
-- Anthony Burgess -
We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith...
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.
-- Art Spiegelman -
Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals.
-- Arthur Mitchell -
We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?
-- Athenagoras of Athens -
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.
-- Atul Gawande -
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
-- Audre Lorde -
Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.
-- Audre Lorde -
I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.
-- Ayn Rand -
Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.
-- Ayn Rand -
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
-- Ben Hecht -
Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
-- Ben Jonson -
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should not believe we can comprehend the incomprehensible, we may not compare the incomparable, we may not inquire because to inquire is to make the horrors an object of discussion, even if the horrors themselves are not questioned, instead of accepting them as something in the face of which we can only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt. Should we only fall silent in revulsion, shame and guilt? To what purpose?
-- Bernhard Schlink -
One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.
-- Bill Crawford -
The journey of life is both too short and too precious to be sidetracked by guilt trips.
-- Bill Crawford -
Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.
-- Bill Konigsberg -
We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
-- Bill Toomey -
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.
-- Billy Bragg -
And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.
-- Bob Gunton -
The guilt that accompanies mistakes can be washed away.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I cant say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I dont do it, it plagues me.
-- Bradley Cooper -
You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.
-- Brenda De Banzie -
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.
-- Brené Brown -
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.
-- Brennan Manning -
Baptism is rich in meaning. It suggests cleansing. When you are a disciple, you understand that you are cleansed by Christ. You understand that Christ died in your place on the cross, paying for your sins, fully forgiving you for all your wrongs. You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.
-- Brooks Atkinson -
Before we can begin to see the cross as something done FOR us, leading us to faith and worship, we have to see it as something done BY us, leading us to repentance. Only the man or woman who is prepared to own his share in the guilt of the cross may claim his share in its grace.
-- C. J. Mahaney -
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.
-- Caryl Rivers -
To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.
-- Catherine Cookson -
Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
-- Cathy Ladman -
Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.
-- Cathy Ladman -
The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.
-- Charles Churchill -
Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.
-- Charles Churchill -
It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.
-- Charles Evans Hughes -
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
-- Charles James -
Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt
-- Charles Spurgeon -
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 -
It's hard for me, a Jew, to stay in the moment. Without the past, where is the guilt? And without the future, where is the dread? And without guilt and dread, who am I?
-- Christopher Moore -
To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.
-- Colin Montgomerie -
I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.
-- Dan Greenburg -
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 -
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
-- David Sedaris -
When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free.
-- David Walliams -
Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.
-- Dennis Miller -
Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
-- Don Van Vliet -
Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.
-- Donald Pleasence -
Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.
-- Doreen Virtue -
I was raised with fear of God, guilt over Jesus, and terror of the Devil.
-- Dory Previn -
Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
-- Drew Carey -
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
-- E. M. Forster -
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
-- Eileen Wilks -
Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.
-- Eileen Wilks -
Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.
-- Eknath Easwaran -
Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.
-- Elin Hilderbrand -
Family and work. Family and work. I can let them be at war, with guilt as their nuclear weapon and mutually assured destruction as their aim, or I can let them nourish each other.
-- Ellen Gilchrist -
My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.
-- Ellen Goodman
