Top Guilt Quotes

It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that...

Guilt Definition

(v. t.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.

(v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

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 prohi...

There is a noticeable element of the pathological in some current leftist critiques, which I tend to attribute to feelings of guilt allied to feelings of impotence. Not an attractive combination, beca...

Feeling bad is not the problem.The problem is that we feel bad about feeling bad.Once you begin to let go of feeling bad about feeling bad,and start feeling better about feeling bad,then pretty soon y...

Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain.

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

Complexes can be the feelings of guilt, a victim complex, and fear of failure, criticism, poverty, and loneliness, loss of love, success, insecurity, denial, and low self-esteem

There are two kinds of Communists: the arrogant ones, who enter the fray hoping to make men out of the people and bring progress to the nation; and the innocent ones, who get involved because they bel...

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.

I have only to glance over my shoulder for all those years to drop away and I see it behind me again, the ravine, rising all green and black through the saplings, a picture that will never leave me.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

If it judges your conscience, then you are in some way guilty of it by action, words or omission.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.

God will never call you in a direction that would cause you to sin. However, he will call you to be creative enough to find a way to make what you want come true through honorable ways.

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?