Quotes About Guilt

Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

F.O.I. protects the guilty, but not the innocent!

As I worked to rebuild the ghost town I had made, I felt keenly that my failure to help Timothy was really only the latest chapter in a lifelong history of inadequacy and powerlessness.

Everybody has a jury, the voices they carry inside. Earl Briggs sits on my jury, Gloria Dayton, too. They are there with Katie and Sandy, my mother, my father, and soon Legal Siegel as well. Those I have loved and those I have hurt. Those who bless me and those who haunt me. My gods of guilt. Every day I carry on and I carry them close. Every day I step into the well before them and I argue my case.

There are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many.You don't need to add to them

Guilt," he said. "You have to get by it. Let the ghosts go or they'll take you under and you'll never be the lawyer you are supposed to be. You will never see the big picture.

He knew there were two kinds of truth in this world. The truth that was the unalterable bedrock of one's life and mission. And the other, malleable truth of politicians, charlatans, corrupt lawyers, and their clients, bent and molded to serve whatever purpose was at hand......The weight and guilt of possibly having made a horrible mistake so long ago was lifted. It was Bosch who felt like the man proven innocent and released from a cage.

The question of how you can hope and expect someone to forgive you when deep down you don't forgive yourself.

A man who looks guilty is found guilty.

Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.

Through it all he was haunted by only one thing. His daughter. Not having had final words with her. Not being able to watch her prosper as an adult. It tore him up to think that he would never see or speak to her again. Guilt overtook him as he acknowledged that he had squandered the past several months as Maddie's father trying to save a woman who didn't want to be saved. In the darkest hours before dawn, hot tears of regret had rolled down his cheeks.

The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don't need to add to them.

now was going to try to use her in an underhanded way. It made him feel guilty before he had even started. "Does she want to come in and talk?" Hinojos asked. "I'll open my calendar." "Actually, no, she doesn't really need to talk," Bosch said. "She's going to college in September down at Chapman in Orange." "Good school. What's she going to study?

What's your point, Legal?" "The point is that there are plenty of people out there judging us every day of our lives and for every move we make. The gods of guilt are many. You don't need to add to them.

story about how a sixteen-year-old kid becomes a stone-cold killer. Hell, getting an innocent

The law was not about truth. It was about negotiation, amelioration, manipulation. I didn't deal in guilt and innocence, because everybody was guilty. Of something.

There is no sense in being haunted by good intentions.

Peter glances out at the falling snow. Oh, little man. You have brought down your house not through passion but by neglect. You who dared to think of yourself as dangerous. You are guilty not of the epic transgressions but the tiny crimes. You have failed in the most base and human of ways - you have not imagined the lives of others.

Oh, there are different ways of being to blame, the Acharis replied. In what you do. In what you think. . . We're to blame for just living

I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive.

Know this. Elric cannot have want he desires most. What he desires does not exist. What he desires is dead. All Elric has is sorrow, guilt, malice, hatred. This is all he deserves and all he will ever desire.