Quotes About Guilt

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love.

You never lose the love of God. Guilt is the warning that temporarily you are out of touch.

I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

I love working. I feel guilty about doing nothing; I get bored.

They could practice making themselves gorgeous. After the pizza. Fat and gorgeous. Ellen sighed. Oh, well. Aunt Clare made caramel corn, Amy said wickedly. But if you think it's too fattening-- Ellen groaned. I'll blow up and burst, but I'll die happy, she said.

For many Whites, this new awareness of the benefits of a racist system elicits considerable pain, often accompanied by feelings of anger and guilt. These uncomfortable emotions can hinder further discussion. We all like to think that we deserve the good things we have received and that others, too, get what they deserve. Social psychologists call this tendency a "belief in a just world."5 Racism directly contradicts such notions of justice.

The messages you received from your family or your childhood experiences may have caused you to believe that assertiveness is unacceptable or even dangerous. Practice saying the following: I have the right to be treated with respect by others. I have the right to express my feelings and opinions. I have the right to say no without feeling guilty. I have the right to ask for what I want. I have the right to make my own mistakes. I have the right to pursue happiness.

began to feel that queasy guilt that you can only know if you have lived among the English—a terrible suspicion that any pleasure involving more than a cup of milky tea and a chocolate digestive biscuit is somehow irreligiously excessive.

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

No one is responsible, nobody is to blame... Either all are guilty or none...

Quand il mangeait des babas ou des éclairs, il se sentait coupable jusqu'à l'âme, à cause de la guerre, à cause des vendeuses dont les maris ou les amants se trouvaient sans doute quelque part, entre la mer du Nord et les Vosges. Mais il comprenait que Madeleine avait besoin de cette nourriture, justement pour tenir en échec ce vide, ce néant, cette nuit où elle était toujours sur le point de sombrer.

By all you hold sacred, by all you hold dear, by your love that is lost, by your hope that lives, for the sake of the Almighty, take me out of this and save my soul from guilt!

Encontrar escapatorias cuando no se quiere mirar dentro de uno mismo es la cosa más fácil de este mundo. Siempre existe una culpa exterior, hace falta mucha valentía para aceptar que la culpa - o, mejor dicho, la responsabilidad - nos pertenece tan sólo a nosotros. Sin embargo, ya te lo he dicho, es ésta la única manera de seguir avanzando. Si la vida es un recorrido, se trata de un recorrido siempre cuesta arriba.

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

Then I thought, No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.

My mother was the worst. She never scolded me, but kept begging me, with a sorrowful face, to tell her what she had done wrong.

Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.

Jongleur's eyelids slid up and he turned to regard them. Renie wondered if her own sim face would register a guilty flush. "If you have the energy to whisper like schoolchildren," he said, "then you no doubt have the strength to begin walking again." He pushed himself upright and began to limp down the path.

I . . . should have known . . . that my . . . torment was not yet finished, my guilt not forgiven.