Quotes About Guilt

whether they knew of didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. (...) by beating himself on the chest and proclaiming, My conscience is clear! I did not know! I was a believer! Isn't his I did not know I was a believer! at the very root of his irreparable guilt?

Ése es uno de los curiosos secretos de la vida, el de que los inocentes cargan con la culpa en lugar de los culpables.

Y llegó a la conclusión de que la cuestión fundamental no es: ¿sabían o no sabían? sino: ¿es inocente un hombre cuando no sabe?, ¿un idiota que ocupa el trono está libre de toda culpa sólo por ser idiota?

O bien se es revolucionario y se funde uno con el movimiento en un todo, o no se es revolucionario y lo único que queda es querer serlo; pero entonces se es permanentemente culpable de no serlo.

Her guilty conscience was as vague as original sin.

Si las personas solo fueran responsables de lo que hacen conscientemente, los idiotas estarían de antemano libres de cualquier culpa. Lo que pasa querido Flajsman, es que las personas tienen la obligación de saber. Las personas son responsables de su ignorancia. La ignorancia es culpable

Las personas, por sí mismas, no son capaces de perdonar, eso no es algo que entre dentro de sus posibilidades. No tienen el poder de hacer que se convierta en nada un pecado que ya ha ocurrido.

As as result of your not knowing, this country has lost its freedom, lost it for centuries, perhaps, and you shout that you feel no guilt? How can you stant the sight of what you've done? How is it you aren't horrified? Have you no eyes to see? If you had eyes, you would have to put them out and wander away from Thebes!

His love for Tereza was beautiful, but it was also tiring: he had constantly had to hide things from her, sham, dissemble, make amends, buck her up, calm her down, give her evidence of his feelings, play the defendant to her jealousy, her suffering, and her dreams, feel guilty, make excuses and apologies. Now what was tiring had disappeared and only the beauty remained.

Y llegó a la conclusión de que la cuestión fundamental no es: ¿sabían o no sabían?, sino: ¿es inocente el hombre cuando no sabe?, ¿un idiota que ocupa el trono está libre de toda culpa sólo por ser idiota?

I happen to love football so much and hate myself for loving it.

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

I curse the heavens for letting the stars fall, I curse myself for not being there to catch them.

Then, as he is criminal he is selfish.

compunction

Sometimes the hardest person to forgive is ourselves.

On my way into the Chinese cleaners I brush past a crying bum, an old man, forty or fifty, fat and grizzled, and just as I'm opening the door I notice, to top it off, that he's also blind and I step on his foot, which is actually a stump, causing him to drop his cup, scattering change all over the sidewalk. Did I do this on purpose? What do you think? Or did I do this accidentally?

By joining the anti-abortion movement, the once guilty are propelled from deep moral unease to a secure position of moral innocence and superiority, with the added social bonding that comes from uniting against a shared enemy whom they depict as murderous and vile. That's quite a set of perks for a very low price of membership (namely, agreeing to vote Republican in the United States—or its counterparts elsewhere).

Even innocents carry within them their own guilt in their own way. No one survives through life without paying in one fashion or another.

Natalya: It was our favorite sister of NASA who guilt me into putting my tits on line to rescuing you helpless ornaments.

You keep using that term, 'the enemy.' But you taught me that euphemisms are only for those who feel guilt about what they are describing.

so, what are you in for? MANSLAUGHTER!!! I SLAUGHTERED A MAN!! JUST LIKE A PIG!!! PUT HIM ON A SPIT AND PUT AN APPLE IN HIS MOUTH!!!!

Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

fueled by a mix of fear and self-recrimination. Nest understood. Bennett was an addict, and she viewed everything that happened as being someone else's fault, all the while thinking deep inside that it was really hers.