Guilt Quotes

The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.

~ Roshani Chokshi

Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.

~ Frances Hardinge

We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..

~ Susan Hill

The back of my hand to guilt.

~ Patrick O'brian

The ending to this scene, I know it. Sirix will fail to return and Serena will still continue to wait. Even though this is repeated multiple times, Sirix will still fail to return. Even though this is repeated multiple times, Serena will still have to wait. I know....History won't change.

~ Mizuho Kusanagi

If we want to be able to pick up the pieces of our lives and go on living, we have to get over the irrationalfeeling that every misfortune is our fault, the direct result of our mistakes or misbehavior. We are really not that powerful. Not everythingthat happens in the world is our doin

~ Harold S. Kushner

Lo! said Percivale, those I had slain were not put to silence. I heard their breath speak out of the lips of others; I saw their looks mock out of the eyes of others; the life that was gone from their bodies was but draughted to enliven fresh matter. In every ray of light, in every gust that blew, the life of the dead moved to confound me. Ah, Saint, the things they had uttered were black and heavy; I could not bear them.

~ Clemence Housman

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.

~ Hannah Arendt

Guilt is what makes you accountable.

~ Roshani Chokshi

Our society cultivates guilt feelings in women such that many of us still feel guilty if we are anything less than an emotional service station to others.

~ Harriet Lerner

I'm never going to 'not come' because of you. You're my friend.I finally turn around so I can reassure her some more, but I freeze. Guilt stabs me deeply.She's crying.It's not full-out bawling, but in the little light available I see two wet trails slowly dripping from sorrowful eyes.Ivy?Her wet eyes close as she slumps forward, her shoulders shuddering.

~ Colleen Boyd

Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.

~ David Mitchell

We are not on our fours, howling in the woods, only because guilt saves us.

~ Nelson Rodrigues

But some mistakes can never be righted and the guilt eats away at the soul. Of all the emotions we have, I have learnt that guilt is the most corrosive. Anger passes quickly, and hatred mellows with age and learning, but guilt endures.

~ Danny Scheinmann

And guilt is heavy, like an anchor holding me in place and hindering any and all advancement.

~ Kim Holden

Intentions are nothing

~ Cassandra Clare

But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs.

~ Ally Carter

We have no need of God to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men are enough, with our help.

~ Albert Camus

Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can't stand by and watch. I have to act. It isn't easy to absolve one's self of guilt.

~ Terry Goodkind

Guilt rarely listens to reason ...

~ Michael G. Williams

I was a woman unaccustomed to guilt, and it drowned me - pulling me deeper, cutting off my air supply.

~ Alessandra Torre

more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.

~ Adrian Mckinty

When he saw the vista of the street reflected in the mirror in which he was looking, he was terror stricken. He had the impression that the whole view had turned into eyes that reproached him.

~ Kōbō Abe

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield.

~ Sabaa Tahir

Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough . . . maybe something good finally happens.

~ Rick Remender

Feeling guilty is not a substitute for loving somebody, it only is an indicator that you have failed to love somebody.

~ Clifford Cohen

Guilt can weigh you down; like being bound in lead chains in a deep murky lake, making you spend the rest of your life gasping for air.

~ Brownell Landrum

Think about what I said, Kat. You have nothing to prove.”“I don’t?”“No,” I said, and I’d say it a thousand times.But I knew screaming it from the top of Seneca Rocks wasn’t going to change how she felt.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

I'm sorry about what happened,' Love said. Death squeezed his hand. 'Play as yourself. Not as me. Trust me one that.

~ Martha Brockenbrough

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

~ Jonathan Carroll

You seem to be holding up rather well under the burden of the world's troubles. How do you do it?

~ Juliann Whicker

What do you feel like you SHOULD be doing instead of writing? IF you have an answer, then you have guilt. The should of life are always linked to guilt.

~ Andi Cumbo-Floyd

So often when people hear about the suffering in our world, they feel guilty, but rarely does guilt actually motivate action like empathy or compassion. Guilt paralyzes and causes us to deny and avoid what makes us feel guilty. The goal is to replace our guilt with generosity. We all have a natural desire to help and to care, and we simply need to allow ourselves to give from our love without self-reproach. We each must do what we can. This is all that God asks of us. - , God Has a Dream, p. 87-88

~ Desmond Tutu

What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.

~ John Mole

I can turn every is into ought .

~ Kevin Deyoung

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

~ Kevin Deyoung

This book is a personal memoir; but it is also a larger story-about carelessness and guilt, and the wreckage they can make of lives.

~ Brooke Hayward

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

~ Angelica Hopes

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

~ Seré Prince Halverson