Quotes About Guilt

Most mothers think they are bad mothers. We all make terrible mistakes, often, and always think we're getting it wrong.

Like all working mothers, I have guilt. Because I have to leave for work, I feel guilty about leaving for anything else.

the question is not so much whether they are guilty as whether we are making the right decision for ourselves.

It had no memory, therefore no guilt

The Irishman had a tendency to let long-standing guilt dry out into annoyance.

America "is no country for the infirm" because infirmity indicates a failure of enjoyment. To be sick is thus to be guilty. The sick illustrate the persistence of dissatisfaction and distance within the society of enjoyment. In acknowledging the sick, one acknowledges lack as well. Hence, like Roy Cohn, we opt instead for nonstop motion, for trying to eliminate the distance that the sick would introduce into the contemporary world.

The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.

WE ARE MEMBERS OF THE GUILTY REMNANT. WE HAVE TAKEN A VOW OF SILENCE. WE STAND BEFORE YOU AS LIVING REMINDERS OF GOD'S AWESOME POWER. HIS JUDGMENT IS UPON US.

Criminals, because they're plagued with guilt, often will surrender and go quietly. Outlaws, because they're pure, never will.

Confession is an act of violence against the unoffending.

getting away with murder must be quite easy provided that one's motive is sufficiently inscrutable.

All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.

We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain make us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humour. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous...We honed our egos on her, padded our characters with her frailty...

And all he could say was that he did not know. He was guilty, therefore, of innocence. Was there anything so loathsome as a willfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore unworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous.

No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines

Every night. Well, she burnin up down there now, her and her nasty daughter…

Sin that is confessed brings relief to life, but confession alone does not free a person from the oppression of sin. While repentance, the turning away from sin and the turning toward a godly life, will not free a person from the results and consequences of sin, it will free him from the guilt and tyranny of sin.

No acute attacks of guilt and self-hatred?" "Nope. I've taken Mr. Wu's advice: never mind how hard the times are, he always says, carry a green branch in your heart and a songbird will settle on it." "Wow—where on earth does Mr. Wu get all these hoary old sayings from?"

Istnieje ca?e mnóstwo uczu?: mi?o??, nienawi??, podekscytowanie, zak?opotanie, strach, gniew, po??danie, poczucie winy, wstyd, wyrzuty sumienia, ?al... I ?adnego z nich nie potrafimy kontrolowa?.

You are! You're staring at me and accusing me!" She thew down her tea. "But I didn't kill my only child, Kyle, bury him in the dirt floor of the basement and construct an elaborate fantasy world! No, I did not!

The person who is a defeated perfectionist generally has a conscience that's way too big. So big, in fact, that it magnifies shortcomings and failures and won't let its owner forget sins or imaginary sins of years ago, even though they have long since been repented of or paid for.

One more thing to remember as you battle failure: you are almost certainly battling guilt as well. Just ask yourself, Do I feel guilty much of the time? For most perfectionists, the answer is almost always yes. I have counseled many people whom I sometimes call "the guilt gatherers of life.

Got something to do with guilt,' Toro said. 'Her mother,neh?' 'Guilt. Longing. Got something to do with all of us.