Quotes About Guilt

Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.

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.

The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions.

That approach only works if the subject suffers from residual middle-class guilt—unfortunately the properly posh, the nouveau riche and senior legal professionals are rarely prey to such weaknesses. For them you have to go in obliquely and with maximum Downton Abbey.

People had got used to the planet dying. They didn't care anymore, it had been lingering on for too long. The Earth was like some aged and slightly disgusting relative that just got sicker and sicker and yet refused to die. Requiring more and more attention, growing bigger tumours, bursting nastier sores and soiling its sheets ever more often. An embarrassment and an inconvenience, a constant reminder of family guilt.

I know that man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor one for the alms of my guilt.

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men:But, at our parting, we will be, as whenWe innocently met.

From time to time there have to be individuals who deliberately take on the burden of guilt because they see the situation clearer than those who have the power.

Separation from her two-year-old son would leave a permanent scar. Ursula defended that bleak decision for the rest of her life. But she never quite forgave herself.

Do. You. Ever. Feel. Guilty." He smiled. "Doesn't everybody?

In Germany, they treated you with yourself. You were guilty of hiding you own cure inside of you, you selfish fuck.

And if you've ever wondered what happens when a person close to you is taken too soon-and it's always too soon-you may find other truths here, truths that may break the grip of sadness in your life, that may set you free from guilt, that may even bring you back to this world from wherever you are hiding. And then you will never fell alone

That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.

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.

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old credit records) impose on our current choices. We may find it too easy to buy things we may later regret.

If I was to feel guilty about something, it would be the fact I haven't done enough. I wish there was a million Roman Reigns. So that I could take them all out at once. Then I would feel like I've accomplished something.

I reject the notion that one should feel guilty about what you don't know.

After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

So white guilt is not a guilt of conscience; it's not something that you get up in the morning and say, my God, I feel guilty about what happened to black Americans. Rather it is the fact that in relation to black Americans you lack moral authority.

North Korea publicly denounced me as an enemy of my people and punished all my relatives. They have this guilty by association policy and they go after three generations of your family or up to eight generations of your family.

I'm a lot more productive in an actual office. I love being around our other editors, and going there every day alleviates some of the guilt that I think many self-employed people feel when you know you could always be working from your laptop at home. I feel so relaxed there, while completely engaged and inspired.

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one.