Guilt Quotes

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.

~ J.d. Robb

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

~ Chuck Palahniuk

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

~ Holly Black

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

~ Lee Goldberg

Archer tries not to think of his own state of purity, physically unsullied, yet now spiritually beyond redemption, his thoughts plagued by lithe limbs and brilliant blue eyes. Doctor Archer has never really understood women, nor has he ever had time for courtship; this is a sacrifice he has willingly made for his career. He thought - believed - for most of his adult life that his vocation was to tend the sick of mind. Romance was a frivolity, carnal urges something he successfully sublimated, resisting the drive to spoil himself. Now, in the overbearing loneliness of his 4am bed he touches himself in secret, panting and hungry and stunned by shame

~ John T. Fuller

You know this is wrong.It isn't a question. When he turns, White is still wrapped snug in the counterpane, motionless, just his gaze pursuing the doctor about the room. I am wrong to do this. The doctor says it as if instructing himself. White says nothing. With a sigh, Archer sits on the edge of the bed, smoothing White's curls back from his forehead. Do you know what we did last night? To admit it, to speak out loud, seems in itself a terrible affront. It might be his imagination, but the doctor fancies he sees a slight lowering of black lashes, the tiniest quirk of a shy smile. He says, wearily but not without affection, No, I don't suppose you do.

~ John T. Fuller

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

~ Leah Braemel

Hello. The doctor speaks softly, nervously. Mr White doesn't respond, not even the slightest change of expression. Dr Archer has been thinking. Mulling it over in his head, endlessly, driving himself more insane he thinks than any unfortunate in his care, crazy with this longing. He is afraid of spiders, he watches the clouds, he held up two fingers; he is lucid. He came to me of his own free will; he shares these terrible feelings.

~ John T. Fuller

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

~ William Shakespeare

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.

~ Mitch Albom

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

~ John Adams

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.

~ Omar N. Bradley

There's this constant guilt that comes with parenting. You always feel like you're never enough. If you're confident in your parenting, you probably suck at it.

~ Nia Vardalos

The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.

~ John Niven

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

~ Coco Chanel

Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it.

~ Simon Mcburney

No man can be judged a criminal until he is found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection until it has been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorize the punishment of a citizen so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt?

~ Cesare Beccaria

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

~ Roland Barthes

In El Salvador, when neighbors were disappeared, tortured or killed, people doubted their own knowledge of the victims, and worried there must have been some secret guilt involved to deserve such punishment! That's how political terror succeeds.

~ Mimi Kennedy

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

~ Franz Kafka

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.

~ Zig Ziglar

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

~ George Sewell

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

~ Kenneth L. Pike

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Good-quality travel and good-quality food are the two luxuries that I never have any guilt indulging in.

~ Charlie Hunnam

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

~ Robbie Robertson

'Ida' is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It's not a film that deals with an issue as such. It's more universal.

~ Pawel Pawlikowski

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.

~ Keira Knightley

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

~ Cathy Guisewite

I've always felt a certain guilt to have them labeled as 'Christina's sisters' or, 'That's Christina's mom' but them looking for the respect to be named Elizabeth and Danielle and Carmen.

~ Christina Milian

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

~ Arianna Huffington

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

~ John Mayer

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.

~ John Lennon

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. 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.

~ Jim Carrey

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.

~ Jim Carrey

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

~ Peter Mcwilliams

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

~ Joshua Oppenheimer

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

~ Martha Beck

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.

~ Paddy Ashdown