Quotes About Guilt

Choosing self-love challenges the collective paradigm of guilt and shame that has controlled us for thousands of years. If we go the route of the ego, we'll never feel worthy of self-love. If we choose to live our Spirit, we'll be instantly liberated.

It is not a pleasant thing, to be accused of something one has not done. One ought to be able to brush the untruths aside, but somehow they take hold of the mind and cause a spectral form of guilt--like a ghost in the head, or in the conscience! Someone is certain that you have done this terrible thing, and so you start to feel as if you have, even though you know you have not. I begin to understand, Georges, why people confess to crimes of which they are innocent.

I have always thought that if Father ever runs out of guilty people to send to the gallows, he'll turn his attentions to the innocent and pretend they're guilty--both in court and in his own mind.

How sorry he was if anything he'd done had created the impression that he might be a killer.

Bu tuhaf bir histi; kendinizi suçlu hissediyor olman?z, yaÅŸananlardan piÅŸman olaca??n?z anlam?na gelmiyordu.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.

No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else knew they were dirty.

We all subscribe to preposterous beliefs; we just don't know yet which ones they are. We too have been known to prefer plot to truth; to deny the evidence before us in favor of the ideas behind us; to do insane things in the name of reason; to take that satisfying step from the righteous to the self-righteous; to drown our private guilts in a public well; to indulge in a little delusion.

When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

Nici o vin? nu este uitat?, cât timp conÅŸtiinÅ£a ÅŸtie de ea"(Suflete zbuciumate)

Porque el que no actúa también hace algo que lo convierte en culpable en la Tierra...

El que quiere y cree que puede evitar hacer el mal con sabiduría cae en la tentación y en la culpa

I have often asked myself, I have wondered to the point of madness, why a moment's foolish action on a single occasion should matter. But we cannot shake doff what we so vaguely call conscience

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)

I feel guilty about most things, though it's usually to do with actions that would impact on other people.

I can't even really tell a joke. I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work but it ain't easy.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Truth is rare fruit in garden of murder.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.