Quotes About Guilt

Il rimorso non tormenta chi l'ha fatta franca". Oggi so che è vera.

Il rimorso non tormenta chi l'ha fatta franca

Whenever you're happy, whenever you're feeling appreciation, whenever you're noticing the positive aspects of someone or something, you're vibrating in harmony with what you do want. But whenever you feel angry or fearful, whenever you feel guilty or disappointed, you're—in that very moment—achieving harmony with what you don't want.

we can misinterpret some of our perceptions of emotions, those visceral feelings—mistaking anger for guilt, love for hate.

The shift from shame to guilt is crucial. Shame is a state of of self-absorption, while guilt is an emphatic, relational response, inspired by the hurt you have caused another.

The maxim that flying time is wasted time liberates me from my anxieties and guilt feelings, and it strips me of all ambitions, leaving room for a different sort of existence. A happy, idiotic existence, the kind that doesn't try to make the most of time but is satisfied with merely finding the most enjoyable way to spend it.

Virtue and vice are the only things in this world, which, with our souls, are capable of surviving death; the former is the rational and only procuring cause of all intellectual happiness, and the latter of conscious guilt and misery; and therefore, our indispensable duty and ultimate interest is, to love, cultivate and improve the one, as the means of our greatest good, and to hate and abstain from the other, as productive of our greatest evil.

Whenever we mentally compartmentalize our work away from our more creative or more spiritual being, we construct a false dichotomy. This schism has to collapse on the level of universal interdependence. If your week and life are segregated this way, you're going to cause suffering—at the very least for yourself. You'll guiltily and resentfully acquiesce to your place in the world.

For redemption is not a rescue from evil—it is a redemption of evil. Salvation is not luck but rather a courageous confrontation that is victorious in battle. And that is why praise is so exhilarating. It has nothing to do with slapping a happy face on a bad situation and grinning through it. It is fashioned deep within us, out of the sin and guilt and doubt and lonely despair that nevertheless believes. And, in that believing, becomes whole.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind me of my childhood.' We have a darker and more complex relationship to food.

I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate. I think you have to feel guilty about it. I think it makes you a better person to keep reminding yourself.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.

If you look at the play very closely, this is a thirdhand report of what a wonderful hero Macbeth is for saving Scotland. And in the next scene, he's planning to murder Duncan, and you never really know why or what's behind Macbeth.

Legal aid is crucial in ensuring those truly guilty of crimes are convicted after due process, and those innocent are able to clear their names, by ensuring that access to legal representation is available for everyone, regardless of ability to pay.

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

I like to shoot feature films because it's about capturing emotions... words like guilt, hurt, betrayal.

It would take me three or four lifetimes to do everything I want. I'm a Brooklyn boy who learned to hustle, and I have to do something every day or I get the guilties.

I once in a while cheat and have a little ice cream, and then I kind of blame myself.