Quotes About Guilt

So this is how a person can come to despise himself - knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

"Because of your wrath there is no health in my body; my bones have no soundness because of my sin. My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear. My wounds fester and are loathsome because of my sinful folly… My back is filled with searing pain; there is no health in my body. I am feeble and utterly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart."

Each age, each guilty age, builds high walls around its Versailles; and personally I hate those walls most when they are made by literature and art.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.

Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them.

We often hear, almost invariably, however, from superficial observers, that guilt can look like innocence. I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom of the two that innocence can look like guilt.

Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. There's another bit of copy-book morality for you, Fosco. Crimes cause their own detection. What infernal humbug!

one unquestionable virtue in England, which is wanting in China. The Chinese authorities kill thousands of innocent people, on the most frivolous pretexts. We, in England, are free from all guilt of that kind—we commit no such dreadful crime—we abhor reckless bloodshed, with all our hearts.

Tüm ahlaki niteliklerin içinde en kolay çürümeye uÄŸrayan? ''vicdanl?l?k'' denilen niteliktir. Ä°nsan?n ruh hâline baÄŸl? olarak vicdan?, kimi zaman ona ceza kesebilecek en sert yarg?ç olur. Kimi zamansa rahatl?kla suç ortaklar? s?fat?yla hareket edebilen bu ikilinin aras?ndan su s?zmaz.

Dan slept throughout - but a man who sleeps with his head lying on a phone table can never really sleep with a clean conscience

Adopting a child is a blessing. Those who perceive themselves as doing someone a favor are not ready to adopt. Pity is such an insult. When making a lifetime commitment to someone, it's no time to let guilt or excessive altruism take over.

My daily life is an acknowledgment and expiation of my sin.

What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.

I said I have committed incest father I said

I already knew, in rough outline, what had happened to the Hawaiians—how American missionaries and other haoles had subjugated them, stolen their lands, killed them en masse with diseases, and converted the survivors to Christianity. I felt no responsibility for this cruel dispossession, no liberal guilt, but I knew enough to keep my junior atheist's mouth shut.

Sen biliyordun deÄŸil mi? Sizlerin bir parças? olduÄŸumu biliyordun? Sizlere öyle yak?n, öyle yak?n, öyle yak?n?m ki! Her ÅŸeyin bozuk gitmesinin nedeniyim ben. Bunu biliyorsun, deÄŸil mi?

The shameful knowledge grew in them and they did not know how to begin confession.