Quotes About Guilt

I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.

I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural.

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

Its easy to lie, but hard to confess

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

I find it's a very positive movement and something you can do every day in little ways. Our philosophy on the website (www.greenissexy.org) is not to have green guilt, do what you can.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!

Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself.

A clear conscience is due to a poor memory.

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.