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Quotes About Guilt

Since you came back from summer break, our entire relationship is about fooling around. We never talk anymore, and I'm sick of feeling guilty for not ripping my clothes off and spreading my legs to prove I love you.
~ Simone Elkeles
Through this man [Launcelot] and me [Guenever] hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
~ Sir William Blackstone
The ache of love feels remarkably like the ache of grief or guilt. Emotional pain isn't distinguishable by feeling, only by language. We give a name to misery, not because we recognize the feeling but because we know its context.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.
~ Robert Breault
Anger is remembered pain, fear is anticipated pain, guilt is self directed pain, depression is depletion of energy. Cure-return to love& joy
~ Deepak Chopra
Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.
~ Robert Pollok
People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
~ Will Cotton
Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.
~ William Shakespeare
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.
~ Holly Black, Kin
My guiltiest pleasure is reading a novel with a glass of wine. I love to read voraciously. I always have. And I love to lose myself in a good book.
~ Kasi Lemmons
Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.
~ Joan Z. Borysenko
I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience
~ Steven Spielberg
Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.
~ Kate Siegel
Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups.
~ Cathy Guisewite
A tragedy like this, we all blame ourselves.
~ Max Barry
To me, though, there's nothing particularly difficult to understand about a man who murders what he loves, and blames her for it.
~ Max Barry
If there's anything worse than visualizing your own death, it's knowing that you caused it.
~ Max Brooks
Conventional executions might have reinforced discipline, might have restored order from the top down, but by making us all accomplices, they held us together not just by fear, but by guilt as well.
~ Max Brooks
Sie wird gebraucht, unsere Schuld, sie rechtfertigt viel im Leben anderer.
~ Max Frisch
When grace moves in... guilt moves out
~ Max Lucado
Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. "There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can't budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?" God's seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared.
~ Max Lucado