Quotes About Guilt

I'd eat bowls of soft-serve ice cream until I felt sick.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

Scout has been on 95 flights before she was 1 years old. I remember in the beginning I felt guilty.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

Ihn dazu anzustacheln. mich zu lieben, erschien mir fast als ein Verbrechen. Wie sollte ich von ihm eine Liebe verlangen, die ihn krank machte vor lauter schlechtem Gewissen, während sie mir einen zusätzlichen Grund zu leben lieferte?

Ogni suo passo parlava di angoscia e di abnegazione, ed il figlio alto e lontano sentiva che non avrebbe mai potuto ripargarlo, nemmeno in parte centesimale, nemmeno col conservarsi vivo.

Utilitarians are often immensely conscientious people, who work for humanity and give up meat for the sake of the animals. They think this is what they morally ought to do and feel guilty if they do not live up to their own standard. They do not, and perhaps could not, ask: How useful is it that I think and feel like this?

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.

if something hurts me, the hurts I suffered back then come back to me, and when I feel guilty, the feelings of guilt return; if I yearn for something today, or feel homesick, I feel the yearnings and homesickness from back then. The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive.

If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me.

Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.

_Sunday!_ In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all of the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest

Most of the White people I talk to either have not thought about their race and so don't feel anything, or have thought about it and felt guilt and shame. These feelings of guilty and shame are part of the hidden costs of racism.

When we feel guilt, we feel badly about something we did or neglected to do. When we feel shame, we feel badly about who we are. Put another way: guilty people fear punishment, shamed people fear abandonment. When we feel guilty we need to learn it's okay to make mistakes. When we feel shame we need to learn it's okay to be who we are.

Bir zamanlar kediymi?im ben Halûk. Sonra, herhalde kediler aras?nda i?lenebilecek en büyük suçu i?lemi?im ki dünyaya bir daha geli?imde insan olmak cezas?na çarp?lm???m...

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

We take too much credit for our effect on the world, whining about our misery and guilt, what others have done or not done to us.

Skepticism in favor of a presumption of guilt when the facts do not support a finding of guilt is irrational skepticism. And irrational skepticism is the smoke screen behind which these murders have been hidden for a hundred years.

Now guilt, fear, and shame controlled Adam and Eve's relationship. The guilt of their sin against a holy God, the fear of rejection, and the shame of how they saw themselves were now the framework for their responses to each other.

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.