Quotes About Guilt

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

We all have guilt. It just can't be all that we have.

Sometimes the survivor's guilt was more than we could bear, a secret between us that we never let show. But we were all we had left?

Nostalgia is history without guilt.

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.

I am not sorry for my crime.

I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.

I don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones.

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

... if sin had a taste she'd found it.

My sin is my shame.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?"I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

Give me a few lines written by any man and I will find enough to get him hung" goes the saying attributed to Richelieu, Voltaire, Talleyrand (a vicious censor during the French revolution phase of terror), and a few others.

law: innocent until proven guilty as opposed to guilty until proven innocent

You feel less guilty for not having avoided certain events; you feel less responsible for it. Things appear as if they were bound to happen.

You can easily tell a Northener: he/she feels guilty doing nothing. Even doing nothing for them is programmed, labeled, and has to be learned using some Yoga instructor.

A guilty conscience can be very troublesome, I've heard.

The idea of Original Sin—of guilt where there is no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives available—is anti-self-esteem by its very nature. The very notion of guilt without volition or responsibility is an assault on reason as well as on morality.

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.