Quotes about Guilt

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. Votes: 7

Guilt is the thief of life. Votes: 5

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. Votes: 4

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. Votes: 4

Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul Votes: 4

Forgiveness is required to dissolve all the negative energy cords because it releases shame, guilt, anger, hatred, etc. Votes: 4

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. Votes: 4

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Votes: 4

Guilt's a terrible thing. Votes: 3

Guilt is a self-indulgence. Votes: 3

Guilt loves the passive. Votes: 3

Guilt is always jealous Votes: 3

Guilt was its own prison. Votes: 3

Guilt soon learns to lie. Votes: 3

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon. Votes: 3

Guilt is unavoidable for mothers. Votes: 3

Guilt is never to be doubted. Votes: 3

Guilt is non-acceptance. Repentance is acceptance." Votes: 3

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't. Votes: 3

Guilt, the poor man's mind control. Votes: 3

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves. Votes: 3

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned. Votes: 3

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does. Votes: 3

Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed Votes: 3

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse. Votes: 3

Guilt is what separates humans from animals. Votes: 3

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing. Votes: 3

Successful guilt is the bane of society Votes: 3

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt. Votes: 3

Guilt is the mafia of the mind. Votes: 3

Guilt is a rope that wears thin. Votes: 3

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity. Votes: 3

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure. Votes: 3

Guilt is the toothache of the soul. Votes: 3

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow. Votes: 3

Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion Votes: 3

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson. Votes: 3

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. Votes: 3

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking ... Votes: 3

Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion. Votes: 3

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning. Votes: 3

Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals. Votes: 3

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action. Votes: 3

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man. Votes: 3

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. Votes: 3

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy. Votes: 3

Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily Votes: 3

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life. Votes: 3

Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined. Votes: 3

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past. Votes: 3

Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy. Votes: 3

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life. Votes: 3

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone. Votes: 3

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future. Votes: 3

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us. Votes: 3

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes. Votes: 3

Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge. Votes: 3

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. Votes: 3

Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self. Votes: 3

Guilt says: I made a mistake. Shame says: I AM a mistake. Votes: 3

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned. Votes: 3

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL Votes: 3

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior. Votes: 3

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers. Votes: 3

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal. Votes: 3

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are. Votes: 3

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others. Votes: 3

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. Votes: 3

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying. Votes: 3

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices. Votes: 3

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie. Votes: 3

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great. Votes: 3

Guilt can teach us to become better; shame causes us to become bitter." EL Votes: 3

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it. Votes: 3

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. Votes: 3

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. Votes: 3

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years. Votes: 3

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. Votes: 3

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. Votes: 3

Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world? Votes: 3

Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others. Votes: 3

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway. Votes: 3

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude. Votes: 3

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence. Votes: 3

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty. Votes: 3

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there. Votes: 3

Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence. Votes: 3

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Votes: 3

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not. Votes: 3

She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals. Votes: 3

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless. Votes: 3

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on. Votes: 3

Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation. Votes: 3

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past Votes: 3

I was educated by the nuns. Guilt and discipline — combine those and you'll be pretty productive. Votes: 3

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places. Votes: 3

You never lose the love of God. Guilt is the warning that temporarily you are out of touch. Votes: 3

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures. Votes: 3

The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda Votes: 3

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. Votes: 3

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. Votes: 3

I'm on a diet I plan to lose Guilt, Fear, Sin, and Doubt then I'll be confident enough to walk about. Votes: 3

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests. Votes: 3

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other peoples best interests. Votes: 3

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear. Votes: 3

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt. Votes: 3

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression. Votes: 3

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that. Votes: 3

Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free. Votes: 3

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all. Votes: 3

Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself. Votes: 3

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught. Votes: 3

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever. Votes: 3

Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not. Votes: 3

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check. Votes: 3

Got something to do with guilt,' Toro said. 'Her mother,neh?' 'Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us. Votes: 3

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time. Votes: 3

I remembered my father telling me when I was a little girl, "Guilt is bullshit. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty. Votes: 3

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other. Votes: 3

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started. Votes: 3

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. Votes: 2

How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! Votes: 2

The guilty think all talk is of themselves. Votes: 2

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. Votes: 2

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. Votes: 2

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. Votes: 2

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! Votes: 2

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. Votes: 2

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. Votes: 2

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. Votes: 2

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Votes: 2

We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust. Votes: 2

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt. Votes: 2

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. Votes: 2

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster. Votes: 2

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. Votes: 2

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something. Votes: 2

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that something needs to change. Votes: 2

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. Votes: 2

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. Votes: 2

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free. Votes: 2

Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appeal to it even to justify wrongdoing; rationalization is the homage paid by sin to guilty knowledge. Votes: 2

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. Votes: 2

We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans. Votes: 2

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires. Votes: 2

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. Votes: 2

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 out denial of the gospel of grace. Votes: 2

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Votes: 2

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. Votes: 2

Unschuld ist kein Schutz. Votes: 1

true feelings impossible to hide Votes: 1

Let go of self-condemnation and guilt! Votes: 1

his conscience washed clean by happiness. Votes: 1

Out, damned spot! out, I say! Votes: 1

How tedious is a guilty conscience! Votes: 1

Sometimes "No" is the kindest word. Votes: 1

There is no guilt in feelings ever. Votes: 1

I can turn every "is" into "ought ". Votes: 1

Your own guilt is your own fault. Votes: 1

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you. Votes: 1

...one half leaning in, one half pulling away. Votes: 1

silent guilt needs to be comfort by discussion. Votes: 1

Let us have no guiltLeft to wasteFor dreaming still. Votes: 1

Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!" schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen. Votes: 1

You give frequent flyer miles with that guilt trip? Votes: 1

Innocence could be lost more than once after all. Votes: 1

You can bear anything-if it isn't your own fault Votes: 1

Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt. Votes: 1

Nobody's innocent... but that doesn't reset the bar on guilt. Votes: 1

If people ever question your loyalty, you never had theirs. Votes: 1

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility. Votes: 1

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth. Votes: 1

I would only blame myself if something happened to you. Votes: 1

Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association. Votes: 1

...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt. Votes: 1

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in. Votes: 1

There are some debts that can't be paid with money. Votes: 1

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance. Votes: 1

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher. Votes: 1

A man in loss is not a man to trust. Votes: 1

As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely. Votes: 1

The existence of guilty sense is soimportant in education and religion. Votes: 1

Regret piles up around us like books we have never read. Votes: 1

Sie wird gebraucht, unsere Schuld, sie rechtfertigt viel im Leben anderer. Votes: 1

Through the eyes of a happy girl lies guilt and destruction. Votes: 1

Your thoughts can torture you-but not the dead. They've moved on. Votes: 1

Holding yourself hostage to past mistakes is an act of self-hate. Votes: 1

She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets. Votes: 1

I am the who in whodunnit. But I am not the dunnit. Votes: 1

Guilty conscience is the number one liar and the producer of suspicion. Votes: 1

We get used to living in a state of mild disappointment with ourselves. Votes: 1

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. Votes: 1

Your mistakes are to help you develop your purpose, not shame and guilt. Votes: 1

Grace silences the voice of accusation and wipes all the evidence of guilt Votes: 1

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. Votes: 1

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself. Votes: 1

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. Votes: 1

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back. Votes: 1

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. Votes: 1

You should never have a relationship based on guilt over someone's poor choices. Votes: 1

Okay.I will go.But only ifyou will give meyour guiltto takewith me. Votes: 1

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others. Votes: 1

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face. Votes: 1

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. Votes: 1

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good. Votes: 1

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. Votes: 1

When your out of space, your out of place at the same time. Votes: 1

Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction. Votes: 1

When you loose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain. Votes: 1

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. Votes: 1

Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself. Votes: 1

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. Votes: 1

When you lose someone untimely; all left is never ending guilt, fear, and pain. Votes: 1

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present. Votes: 1

The most common lie uttered without thought, sincerity, resolve, or guilt: I love you. Votes: 1

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible. Votes: 1

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin. Votes: 1

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't. Votes: 1

He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily. Votes: 1

Outside it was dark, but not as dark as it was inside of me. Votes: 1

You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty. Votes: 1

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. Votes: 1

Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income. Votes: 1

My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white. Votes: 1

Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone. Votes: 1

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important. Votes: 1

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it. Votes: 1

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Votes: 1

Evil originates not in the absence of guilt; but in our effort to escape it. Votes: 1

....you can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. Votes: 1

Damn, she was getting so tangled up by guilt and desire. ~Nikki in Texas Tangle Votes: 1

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too. Votes: 1

Don't let the guilt of the past keep you from the victories of the future. Votes: 1

Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always. Votes: 1

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it. Votes: 1

Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame. Votes: 1

In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering. Votes: 1

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity. Votes: 1

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise. Votes: 1

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker. Votes: 1

The exoneration of the mass. No one voice is to blame. But his voice was there. Votes: 1

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart Votes: 1

The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out. Votes: 1

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger. Votes: 1

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt. Votes: 1

Don't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You Votes: 1

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror. Votes: 1

No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. Votes: 1

With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble. Votes: 1

It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true. Votes: 1

A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it. Votes: 1

Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere. Votes: 1

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier Votes: 1

There is no client as scary as an innocent man."J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962. Votes: 1

The elimination diet:Remove anger, regret, resentment, guilt, blame, and worry.Then watch your health, and life, improve. Votes: 1

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food. Votes: 1

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt. Votes: 1

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man. Votes: 1

Enough of this guilt," he told her, his voice reduced to a cracked whisper. "What's done is done. Votes: 1

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. Votes: 1

I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it. Votes: 1

I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica Votes: 1

No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day. Votes: 1

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity. Votes: 1

But, the thing about guilt is, no one can take away for you; you have to unpack it yourself. Votes: 1

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse. Votes: 1

Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty. Votes: 1

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent. Votes: 1

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down. Votes: 1

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ. Votes: 1

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse. Votes: 1

Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt. Votes: 1

Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire. Votes: 1

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.' - Bread & Wine (day 5) Votes: 1

In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall. Votes: 1

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about. Votes: 1

All day we've witnessed each other's crimes. You killed no one today? But how many did you leave to die? Votes: 1

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents? Votes: 1

My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit. Votes: 1

On the perfect night there is nothing more transcendent or terrifying than boxing. It's the ultimate representation of the guilty pleasure. Votes: 1

Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything Votes: 1

How much suffering did you lay on yourself before you awakened and recognized that guilt is deadly, and empty, and profitless? Votes: 1

With all her finesse for cleaning, Snag sometimes felt that her biggest contribution to mankind was making a mess of things. Votes: 1

Dalgliesh was too experienced to assume that fear implied guilt; it was often the most innocent who were the most terrified. Votes: 1

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Votes: 1

What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears. Votes: 1

Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life Votes: 1

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home. Votes: 1

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food. Votes: 1

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it. Votes: 1

I won't cry. When the guilt is this heavy, you can't. It just settles and stays with you, and it's cold. Votes: 1

You see, sex for Jews is not such a terrible sin. It's just one more physical sport we're gonna stink at. Votes: 1

Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest."-Lo-The Wild Hunt Votes: 1

As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it. Votes: 1

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame,can crush even the best of men,in mountains of weight Votes: 1

Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you. Votes: 1

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way. Votes: 1

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later. Votes: 1

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose. Votes: 1

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945 Votes: 1

...Except when I was alone. I'd hate myself. It's how we feel about ourselves when we're alone that must guide our decisions. Votes: 1

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad. Votes: 1

Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt. Votes: 1

It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm. Votes: 1

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal! Votes: 1

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless. Votes: 1

Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind. Votes: 1

Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you. Votes: 1

I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it. Votes: 1

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. Votes: 1

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt. Votes: 1

It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said firmly. Votes: 1

In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. Votes: 1

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are. Votes: 1

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present? Votes: 1

After all, the fundamental question of philosophy (like that of psychoanalysis) is the same as the question of the detective novel: who is guilty? Votes: 1

It was the Communists, it was the Mexicans, it was the government. And the only people who acknowledged their guilt weren't guilty at all. Votes: 1

It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults. Votes: 1

displaying true emotion-what we want to ask but somehow feel if ask for it - will be taken as bad criticism.this is guilt Votes: 1

You are walking on thin ice - the ice of what remains of the trust between us - carrying the weight of immeasurable guilt. Votes: 1

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil Votes: 1

Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical. Votes: 1

He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal. Votes: 1

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy. Votes: 1

Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind.'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom Votes: 1

She made him feel guilty at times. The problem was that she was so honest herself, almost transparent. It seemed criminal to be deceiving her. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s). Votes: 1

The police seemed to think I killed her, which is crazy, because I loved her like a thousand drops of blood dripping down a dagger. Votes: 1

That part of you that feels bad when you do wrong is the reasonable part of you that was subdued by the unreasonable and irrational Votes: 1

Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment. Votes: 1

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others. Votes: 1

A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres. Votes: 1

It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed. Votes: 1

Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed. Votes: 1

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked. Votes: 1

Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl Votes: 1

Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame. Votes: 1

Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense. Votes: 1

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging. Votes: 1

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? Votes: 1

This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes Votes: 1

Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did. Votes: 1

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him. Votes: 1

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool. Votes: 1

Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty? Votes: 1

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first. Votes: 1

There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you'd not done! Votes: 1

He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin. Votes: 1

She went to the window seat and sat there, sniffling, hating them all, and herself most of all. It was all her fault, everything bad that had happened. Votes: 1

At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly. Votes: 1

Revenge is but a temporary gratification, but that which stays within you longer is the guilt and sin after revenging making you not much of a better person. Votes: 1

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 Votes: 1

If you survive, you've got to live with the guilt, and that's more difficult than looking someone in the eye and pulling the trigger. Trust me. I've done both. Votes: 1

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. Votes: 1

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself. Votes: 1

When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function. Votes: 1

We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love. Votes: 1

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

As worthless as guilt was known to be, he couldn't help feeling it, seeing his wife work herself to exhaustion for a parish tea that would last only two hours. Votes: 1

It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water. Votes: 1

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it. Votes: 1

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you. Votes: 1

So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about. Votes: 1

But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart. Votes: 1

Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing. Votes: 1

On our Journey, we should not dwell on the guilt emerging because of dropping back to Ego-dominated state; instead, we should celebrate that we are in the state of the Presence! Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred. Votes: 1

God cannot remove the burdens of your heart, but he will prompt you where to go, what to say and what to do, in order to free yourself from your chains. Votes: 1

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible. Votes: 1

What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering. Votes: 1

I'd put him in the spot where he got hit. It was my fault he got shot. A hundred kills? Two hundred? More? What did they mean if my brother was dead? Votes: 1

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall. Votes: 1

If there was one thing Sam understood, it was guilt. It didn't have to be logical; oftentimes it wasn't. Itsawed at your gut relentlessly, tediously, until you wore it like a scar. Votes: 1

Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you? Votes: 1

It takes more courage to be yourself than to live in the prison of ego with feelings of guilt. It takes a lot more courage to be happy than to be unhappy. Votes: 1

If silence is the admission of guilt, then she must be really guilty, because last night I asked her a question and instead of answering, she went to sleep for eight hours. Votes: 1

No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way, Votes: 1

Give me your past, all your pain, all your anger, all your guilt. Release it to me, and I will be a safe harbor for the life you need to leave behind. Votes: 1

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions. Votes: 1

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. Votes: 1

Why the hell don't people understand there are some things you don't talk about? You keep it to yourself so you hurt fewer people. You're supposed to pay with guilt. Guilt is penance. Votes: 1

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations. Votes: 1

God has broken me in every way possible. I spent a year not caring, a year trying to figure out what I'd done to deserve it. and a year trying to make it right. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution. Votes: 1

Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed. Votes: 1

Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up with little time to take your last breath before being pulled under. Votes: 1

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever. Votes: 1

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility. Votes: 1

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Votes: 1

Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportunities that will change your life. Expect these things - work for them and don't ever stop until they're yours. Votes: 1

I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation. Votes: 1

If I was president of the Slime Committee, I'd make it easier to come clean about shit. If coming clean is what you're supposed to do, then it should be made more fucken accessible, I say. Votes: 1

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them. Votes: 1

Fear and guilt are your enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By choosing to. It's that simple. Votes: 1

Everyone makes mistakes, Jenna. Everyone has regrets and guilt for things they should have done differently in their lives. Shit happens, and we do the best we can at the time. You can't blame yourself forever. Votes: 1

And that for every negative event or coincidence that has happened since, imagining that you triggered them, that you made them happen makes you feel like you possess a degree of control that you don't have. Votes: 1

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, because it results in self-hatred. Votes: 1

I take it, though,...given the utter lack of change in your demeanor and nearly radiating I-just-slaughtered-a -bunch-of-infant-forest-animals guilt coming from your general direction...the exchange with your female friend went something a trifle short of fantastic. Votes: 1

I turn away, tempted to punch the glass. I'm in the gratest danger of my life, and I'm playing with my hair and wondering if the boy I can't have-and refuse to let myself want-thinks I'm pretty. Votes: 1

In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. Votes: 1

The hostility and venomous response the topic of sexual trauma and rape in the military brings up, especially with men from my Era, is revealing. This opposition speaks to their guilt and toward the truth that stays hidden. Votes: 1

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it. Votes: 1

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 prohibitions. Votes: 1

People who excuse their faults and claim they didn't deserved to be punished - there are lots of them. But those who don't excuse their faults and admit they didn't deserve to be spared - they are few. Votes: 1

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt. Votes: 1

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable.I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank. Votes: 1

It is strange the way that someone who wants to find you guilty can start to make you believe in your own guilt, even when you know you are innocent. I was afraid I would condemn myself my mistake. Votes: 1

She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated on one word: guilt. Votes: 1

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks. Votes: 1

When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself. Votes: 1

The shame, embarrassment, feeling of low self-worth, and scores of "labels" we give ourselves are not fitting. I am beginning to see how I had no control over the situation. He was a big man, I was a little boy. Votes: 1

Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds, it grows, and when it runs out of time, it begins to gnaw on the guilty. Votes: 1

Guilt was a fascinating thing: it seemed not to weaken over time. If anything it grew stronger as the circumstances faded from memory, as the fear and the necessity became abstract. And only her own actions stood out with crystal clarity. Votes: 1

No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties. Votes: 1

His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankles, lest she should get wet. Votes: 1

Morrigan "What are guilt ferrets:"Atticus "They're bastards. They cling to your neck and tickle and bite and generally make you miserable, which is a pretty good trick for a metaphor." They were also impervious to logic, perhaps their most diabolical power. Votes: 1

To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed. Votes: 1

In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but that is not a bad thing. If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption. Votes: 1

...I fear that some of us understand just enough about the gospel to feel guilty--guilty that we are not measuring up to some undefinable standard--but not enough about the Atonement to feel the peace and strength, the power and mercy it affords us. Votes: 1

Whoever lives wins. Don't feel guilty about having survived. If you have time to be feeling guilty, work on living a day longer, a minute longer. And once in a while, remember the ones that died before you. That's good enough."Vol 1 Chap 4 Votes: 1

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds. Votes: 1

Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt. Votes: 1

What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept soundly. Votes: 1

Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them. Votes: 1

I couldn't begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried guilt for some unforgivable depravity. Then again, perhaps not. Votes: 1

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. Votes: 1

Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.They have an impact like that of gravity.They heavy you like few tons of concrete,Therefore,Instead of growing, moving on and learning from your mistakes,You will wine and dine with Would Have's and Could Have's. Votes: 1

I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing. Votes: 1

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences. Votes: 1

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 is not weary. The hope not built on blindness. Votes: 1

Death abides by no one's rules...it takes what pleases it without consciousness to its decisions. It destroys what it will. It took the pieces of perfection I once knew and shattered them. Now what remains are shards of a dream, drawing blood with every step. Votes: 1

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair.""I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't? Votes: 1

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be. Votes: 1

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt."We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes, and I try to let her words work themselves into me. Votes: 1

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceive assume everybody deceives.Confessions of a Whistle-Blower: Lessons Anna C. Salter. Ethics & Behavior, Volume 8, Issue 2 June 1998 Votes: 1

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 you'll just feel better.And then you'll feel awesome. Votes: 1

I never cut my neighbor's throat;My neighbor's gold I never stole;I never spoiled his house and land;But God have mercy on my soul!For I am haunted night and dayBy all the deeds I have not done;O unattempted loveliness!O costly valor never won! Votes: 1

He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you. Votes: 1

Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin to give as much as you know of yourself to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged. Votes: 1

It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words from the sky.I'm sorry, Grandfather. Votes: 1

Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Behjet eased the horse forward again. "The harvest is failing. There will be no crop at all if this rain doesn't stop - not even hay."The rain. The rain she'd been so grateful for, the rain that concealed the warping of her shadow. It was going to kill people. Votes: 1

Look, I don't know who has been telling you over the years that you aren't worthy of love and happiness, but they're idiots. We all deserve it. And if people get hurt along the way, that's life. We've all been hurt. Doesn't that make love more crucial to our lives? Votes: 1

She had dreams that shamed her in the morning, dreams where Ronan gave her a white powdered cake, yet spoke in Arin's voice. I made this for you, he said. Do you like it?The powder was so fine that she inhaled its sweetness, but always woke before she could taste. Votes: 1

People who own their lives do not feel guilty when they make choices about where they are going. They take other people into consideration, but when they make choices for the wishes of others, they are choosing out of love, not guilt; to advance a good, not to avoid a bad. Votes: 1

People who own their lives do not feel guilty when they make choices about where they are going. They take other people into consideration, but when they make choices for the wishes of others, they are choosing out of love, not guilt; to advance a good, not to avoid a bad. Votes: 1

The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of a tree to sleep. And in the morning, it woke with her and clung to her back, riding on her shoulders as she climbed down, hungry and exhausted from nightmares. Votes: 1

Buck Barrow, brother of Clyde Barrow (Bonnie & Clyde) was once asked "Where are you wanted by the law?" Barrow replied, "Wherever I've been." What a picture of our own guilt. We cannot escape our sinfulness because it follows us everywhere. Neither can we escape the mercy of God that is always there. Votes: 1

Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause. Votes: 1

Neurotic guilt scans the horizons of the past relentlessly seeking out the most deplorable, hideous, and culpable acts which are least consistent with one's self image. This process is similar to the infinite passion of intensified anxiety for seeking the worst conceivable possibilities in order to alert the whole organism to potential danger. Votes: 1

And much like the despairity of the woman who can never bear children, my dreams can never bear fruit. They are the mountains I can never climb.The hurdles I can never leap.The seas I can never cross. The skies I can never look up to.Yet, I adopt them. Unblemished.Guilt-free. Votes: 1

Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it?"She bit his good shoulder. "You're about to find out."She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. "Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side. Votes: 1

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence. Votes: 1

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it Votes: 1

You cannot live with guilt. Votes: 0

sorrow is easier than guilt. Votes: 0

Only good people feel guilt. Votes: 0

Everybody is laden with guilt. Votes: 0

Everybody is laden with guilt. Votes: 0

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt. Votes: 0

I carry lots of guilt. Votes: 0

Secret guilt is by silence revealed. Votes: 0

Don't confuse your grief with guilt. Votes: 0

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed. Votes: 0

Power without guilt, love without doubt.... Votes: 0

INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman. Votes: 0

The guilt of newborns is immense. Votes: 0

I've always been a magnet for guilt. Votes: 0

When grace moves in... guilt moves out Votes: 0

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt. Votes: 0

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as collective guilt. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as guilt-free eating. Votes: 0

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. Votes: 0

But I don't believe in guilt by association. Votes: 0

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt. Votes: 0

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine Votes: 0

Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt. Votes: 0

Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever. Votes: 0

I have a massive guilt thing about money. Votes: 0

Age carries with it a double load of guilt Votes: 0

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip! Votes: 0

I have no guilt about any of my pleasures. Votes: 0

A land of levity is a land of guilt. Votes: 0

He that knows no guilt can know no fear. Votes: 0