Blame Quotes

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

~ Steve Maraboli

When I look inside myself, I find I am to blame,For everything that I've done wrong,And said others were to blame.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking.

~ Kahlil Gibran

you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.

~ Jennifer Brown

When I left, they were stuck with the burden of finding someone else to blame for their life... Pointing their anger everywhere, but never looking in the mirror... Continuing the cycle that led to their misery.

~ Steve Maraboli

You can blame people and situations for your misery, hunger, deprivation and illness, but you are the only person can be blamed for your illiteracy.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

to avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

You started with a broken heart and blamed everyone you met after that for breaking it.

~ Kristin Hersh

Mark Spitz had met plenty of the divine-retribution folks over the months. This was their moment; they were umbrella salesmen standing outside a subway entrance in a downpour. The human race deserved the plague, we brought it on ourselves for poisoning the planet, for the Death of God, the calculated brutalities of the global economic system, for driving primordial species to extinction: the entire collapse of values as evidenced by everything from nuclear fission to reality television to alternate side of the street parking. Mark Spitz could only endure these harangues for a minute or two before he split. It was boring.The plague was the plague. You were wearing galoshes, or you weren't.

~ Colson Whitehead

People may not realize the damage that they are doing by placing the blame on the victim ~ but that doesn't lessen the damage that they cause by doing it.

~ Darlene Ouimet

Many Survivors blame themselves for the abuse and continue to feel responsible and guilty for anything bad that happens to them or to other people they know. Survivors often feel bad about themselves and different from other people. They therefore isolate themselves from other people and avoid making close friendships.

~ Carolyn Ainscough

The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart.

~ George Bernard Shaw

We are all the same and need to think that we are innocent. However, we do blame others just to be innocent. We simply believe blaming will wash out ourselves. More we search innocence more we blame others. What we need to understand our purity instead of trying to prove that we are blameless.

~ Umut Kisa

People with a style of denial and blaming are definitely on the list of unsafe people to avoid. 10.

~ Henry Cloud

My mom called Grandma today and told her we would no longer be attending family parties. My mom told her we have had enough of being blamed for something Brian did and everyone brushing it off like it was no big deal.

~ Erin Merryn

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We cannot live side by side with obviously distressed people unless they are to blame and we are innocent. Nothing inside them or the way they live can be allowed to disturb our lives.

~ David Brandon

For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.

~ Auliq Ice

Women of dignity know when to stop expecting loyalty when he won't even give you honesty.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Neither blame or praise yourself.

~ Plutarch

Blaming the ex for the breakup is like blaming the clothes for not fitting you.

~ Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Don't complain or blame to others, you are the one who selected wrong person,now get up ,wipe your tears and correct your statistics and now make a wiser choice. Learn to judge people, learn from your master(god,parents,teacher,best friend).

~ Nikhil Yadav

Blaming others doesn't certify your goodness.

~ Hina Hashmi

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_)

~ Victor Hugo

there's plenty of blame to go around.

~ Suzanne Collins

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Nico wasn't sure whether to kick himself or Will Solace. If he hadn’t been so distracted bickering with the son of Apollo, he would never have allowed the enemy to get so close.

~ Rick Riordan

When a man died, there had to be blame. Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame the war, You could blame the idiots who made the war. You could blame Kiowa for going to it. You could blame the rain. You could blame the river. You could blame the field, the mud, the climate. You could blame the enemy. You could blame the mortar rounds. You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts, who switched channels at the mention of politics. You could blame whole nations. You could blame God. You could blame the munitions makers or Karl Marx or a trick of fate of an old man in Omaha who forgot to vote.

~ Tim O'brien

You blame me for this, don't you? he says.I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

~ Melina Marchetta

No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.

~ Sophocles

No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right.

~ Lorii Myers

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

~ Jacqueline Carey

Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.

~ Graham Joyce

Exploration! Exploring the past! We students in the camps seminar considered ourselves radical explorers. We tore open the windows and let in the air, the wind that finally whirled away the dust that society had permitted to settle over the horrors of the past. We made sure people could see. And we placed no reliance on legal scholarship. It was evident to us that there had to be convictions. It was just as evident as conviction of this or that camp guard or police enforcer was only the prelude. The generation that had been served by the guards and enforcers, or had done nothing to stop them, or had not banished them from its midst as it could have done after 1945, was in the dock, and we explored it, subjected it to trial by daylight, and condemned it to shame.

~ Bernhard Schlink

I started wondering if God really existed. The world seemed too empty and lonely for there to be a God in it. But I figured he must exist because I kept blaming everything on him.

~ The Hippie

Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.

~ Bobby Darnell

The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

~ Terry Pratchett

Many have blamed the gasoline shortages and long lines at filling stations in 1973 on the Arab Oil embargo of that year. However, the shortages and long lines began months before the Arab oil embargo, right after price controls were imposed.

~ Thomas Sowell

Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.

~ Patrick Ness

That drew a laugh from Jessamy, but he said, after a moment: “You had better flay me. It was my fault—all my fault!”“I was wondering how long it would be before you contrived to convince yourself that you were to blame,” said Alverstoke caustically. “I haven’t the slightest wish to know how you arrived at such an addlebrained conclusion, so don’t put yourself to the trouble of telling me!

~ Georgette Heyer