Best 1275 quotes in «guilt quotes» category

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.

After eating a hundred mice, the cat makes a hadj to Mecca.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

A land of levity is a land of guilt.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses them against herself.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.

Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong.

Although I was too young to understand the theory of universal (that's to say male) guilt, I was old enough to know which sex suffered migraine and which sex caused it.

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

And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

Anger, depression, guilt, and shame are the product of the thinking that is at the base of violence on our planet.

An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And though want of suspicion more than want of sense, sometimes leads a man into harm; yet too much suspicion is as bad as too little sense.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear.  Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

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

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!

By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence depends— thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.

By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street, field, or forest — where crime has been committed, and shall exult to behold the whole earth one stain of guilt, one mighty blood spot.

By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

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