Guilt Quotes

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

There is no such thing as collective guilt.

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

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.

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

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.

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.

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

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.