Guilt Quotes

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.

~ Virginia Woolf

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

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

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

~ Orson Scott Card

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.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

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

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

~ Marian Keyes

Maybe you're starting to move on, my love. But to fully do it, you have to let the guilt go. Gabriel will always be an important part of your life. I don't even want to imagine how difficult it is to move on, but a new love always helps. I can bet you will find it in MacCraig's arms. He may be domineering and commanding, but everyone has flaws.

~ Cristiane Serruya

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

~ Gregg Hurwitz

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

~ Annette Vaillancourt

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

~ Françoise Sagan

But with each step she took, Mythili realized why most people don’t go shopping alone. It’s because this mind of ours gets pretty damn busy. It starts analyzing every little stimulus you receive. And because you don’t have another human being walking next to you distracting you from all the little stuff you should be ignoring, your mind takes it upon itself to provide you with companionship and talk you through your life.

~ Shweta Ganesh Kumar

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

~ Umberto Eco

When I picked up the bird and felt its light weight in my hands, I realized that carelessness was a form of cruelty. See, I'd always told myself that because I meant no harm, anything that happened wasn't my fault. At that moment, though, I knew I was wrong. If I hadn't given the female my gun, the bird wouldn't have been shot. I was responsible even though I didn't pull the trigger.

~ J.r. Ward

I've spent all the years since full of guilt and misery, even though I didn't remember it. I've let it run my thoughts, my plans, my whole life. But the experience doesn't own me. I own it. What I do with it is up to me, just like what Molly does with her death magic is up to her.

~ Faith Hunter

It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever realities there are around us, and which were meant by Heaven to be the spirit’s joy and nutriment. To the untrue man, the whole universe is false—it is impalpable—it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.

~ Nick Hornby

To be fair, she called this morning. I stared at the phone. Circled it on my bed. And, eventually, it stopped ringing. If it had been important, she would’ve called back, right? That was the line of thought that ran through my head until halfway through the day, when I started to feel bad about it.

~ Kelley York

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

~ Aleksandar Hemon

Maybe that would be a good thing to do. He wasn't entirely sure, and that bothered him more than anything. How was he meant to judge right from wrong when he had never really striven to do right before? The only good thing he had known was his time with Drin, and Drin had died because o

~ Emily Veinglory

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.

~ Diane Chamberlain

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

~ Veronica Roth

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

~ Richelle Mead

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.

~ Reginald Rose

Guilt was its own prison.

~ Richelle Mead

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.

~ Shannon Messenger

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

~ Jodee Blanco

Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association.

~ Seanan Mcguire

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

~ Tim Hawken

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

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

No,” Joan vowed. She grabbed Bash’s shirt. “I don’t want this. Didn’t want this to happen.”Screams resonated.Bash continued quietly, “None of us do. That’s not up to us. We have to decide what we’re going to do with what we’re given. Play the cards dealt to us.

~ Cate Campbell Beatty

Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good, it ruins the lives of everyone else. It’s a selfish thing to do. Don’t confess.

~ Jake Adelstein

I should have forgiven him.”“Maybe. Maybe there’s more we all could have done,” he says, “but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.”I frown and pull back. That is a lesson that members of Abnegation learn – guilt as a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

~ Veronica Roth

Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the truths of the human condition. Purity of heart and the capacity to channel desires toward personal self-mastery in holiness are part of the high calling of the Christian life. These remain necessities, despite the promises of a false humanism that claims that human nature has neither limits nor boundaries, being infinitely plastic and malleable -- a vain and counterproductive attempt to liberate humans from guilt.

~ George Cardinal Pell

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?

~ Julie Otsuka

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.

~ Cassandra Giovanni

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).

~ J'son M. Lee

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

~ Jodi Picoult

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the world. A third are male. One study revealed that over 50 per cent of prostitutes are the children of alcoholics or substance abusers, and 90 per cent are deflowered through incest or rape. Ninety-one per cent of prostitutes do not speak of the abuse. (The truth of life is told through the language of behavior.) Abused children suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt, self-destructive impulses, suspicion, fear. Seventy-five per cent of prostitutes attempt suicide. (Imagine their scrapbook of memories.)

~ Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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

~ Seneca

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

~ Max Frisch