Quotes About Guilt

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

I had to be right in never talking about what you could not change, and I had to make many people agree that I was right. None of them ever accused me of being responsible for what had happened to Phineas, either because they could not believe it or because they could not understand it. I would have talked about that, but they would not, and I would not talk about Phineas in any other way.

manslaughter, not murder.

I cannot subscribe to this modern idea that we should feel guilty about our role on earth

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith.

Fake coughing in front of smokers just to make them feel guilty!

When a person is too proud to admit a mistake, they choose to live with the guilt in their hearts. They think that guilt is just a feeling and can not harm them. But in reality, as long as you have not humbled yourself and admitted your wrong, you will always feel trapped by what you did in the past. Its memory will haunt you every day of your life.

Best thing about being pregnant...People WANT you to nap and you don't feel guilty or lazy for doing so.

Regret is for the weak, guilt, and senseless people. If you are strong, loyal and mindful you will learn how to challenge life.

A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.

Life as a work of art is covered by years of fears, guilt and indecision. But, if we decide to remove those things that do not belong, if we have no doubt as to our capability, we are capable of going forward with the mission that is our destiny. That is the only way to live with honor.

Requesting of apology or forgiveness does not mean that you always guilty and he is always right, sometimes you do it because you just want to value your companionship more than pride.

I knew he killed men every day; he came home wet with their blood, stains he scrubbed from his skin before dinner. But there were moments, like now, when that knowledge overwhelmed me.

La culpa me inmovilizaba en la cama como si se tratara de un ancla. Solo me hizo mover el recuerdo hiriente de Quirón. «No renuncies a las cosas con tanta facilidad como hiciste una vez».

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Power without guilt, love without doubt....

Once you're a Catholic, you're always a Catholic—in terms of your feelings of guilt and remorse and whether you've sinned or not. Sometimes I'm wracked with guilt when I needn't be, and that, to me, is left over from my Catholic upbringing. Because in Catholicism you are born a sinner and you are a sinner all of your life. No matter how you try to get away from it, the sin is within you all the time.