Quotes About Guilt

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

Didn't say," Mr. Sullivan said, pretending the deep-fryer knobs needed fiddling with. "I'm really sorry about what happened to your friends.

In my experience, the more aggressive a woman is, the less guilty she seems. Or maybe it's the guiltier an aggressive woman is, the less rational she becomes. That's a hard thing to judge from the inside.

Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge—she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, or expectation of any kind. It was easier to turn her back on the two countries that could claim her in favor of one that had no claim whatsoever.

Suddenly he imagines the house where Bridget's husband lives alone, longing for her, with his unfaithful wife's name on the mailbox, her lipstick beside his shaving things. Only then does he feel guilty.

I don't really work out. I eat a lot of sweets. I have chocolate all over my house.

Don't bother trying to guilt me. Ask my other. It doesn't work.

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt?

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

Guilt-tripping people does not work; they tend to be turned off.

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

Our post-war generation were struggling to escape the past and the burden of guilt we carried and to find a new way.

Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul?

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

I have half a conscience to go ahead and do it, and feel guilty afterwards

Things in law tend to be black and white. But we all know that some people are a little bit guilty, while other people are guilty as hell

Guilt is regret for what weíve done. Regret is guilt for what we didnít do.

Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.

I must emphasize and explain repeatedly the moral dimensions of all social life, and point out that morality is, in fact, hidden in everything. And this is true; whenever I encounter a problem in my work and try to get to the bottom of it, I always discover some moral aspect, be it apathy, unwillingness to recognize personal error or guilt, reluctance to give up certain positions and the advantages flowing from them, envy, an excess of self-assurance, or whatever.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.