Quotes About Guilt

I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Every now and then, I felt a teeny-weeny bit of guilt about what I was doing. But I needed the money more than I needed a good conscience.

temptation, that in itself it is nothing but an opportunity for choice; so it is rather defeatist to feel very guilty about it, as though one were half ready to commit the sin.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

When I returned, everything was different. Everything was calm, and I felt very clean. Everything was in order. Everything was as it should be. I had a secret. It was a guilty secret, certainly. But it was MY secret. I had something to hold on to. It was company. It kept me calm. It filled me up and emptied me out.

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us humans.

Sería imposible describir el peso de toda esa culpa.

He'd admired it in the window of a shop on the Strand when he'd met her for dinner one evening, never expecting her to surprise him with it a couple of days later. Now he could see that perhaps she'd bought it out of guilt, but at the time, he just felt it showed how much she'd loved him. He'd been too wrapped up in their future to see it as just a present. And today, perhaps appropriately, it had stopped. Still, at least he was making good time—for

Don't feel guilty about being idle. More harm is probably done to the world through work than idleness. But perfect your idleness. Make it mindful.

Catholicism, I discovered, was a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin and guilt.

Catholic, I discovered, meant a type of Christianity for humans who like gold leaf, Latin, and guilt.

He didn't even seem bothered. To seem grateful in any way for the universe he was in. the universe she had felt so guilty for not allowing to happen.

I have learned that however strong the craving gets the guilt afterwards will be stronger.

I regret feeling so much guilt.

Catolicismul, am aflat, era o forma de crestinism pentru umanii carora le placeau poleiala cu foita de aur, limba latina si sentimentul de vina.

el catolicismo es un tipo de cristianismo para humanos a los que les gusta el pan de oro, el latín y la culpa.

The power of all the regrets simultaneously emanating from the book was becoming agony. The weight of guilt and remorse and sorrow too strong. She leaned back on her elbows, dropped the heavy book and squeezed her eyes shut. She could hardly breathe, as if invisible hands were around her neck.

Humans were always doing things they didn't like doing. In fact, to my best estimate, at any one time only point three percent of humans were actively doing something they liked doing, and even when they did so, they felt an intense guilt about it and were fervently promising themselves they'd be back doing something horrendously unpleasant very shortly.

Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime.

Elections, like criminal trials, are ultimately always about assigning blame.

In fact, the tension between the sheer quantity of horrifying news and your real-world impotence to do much about it is part of our consumer strategy. We create the illusion that being informed is a kind of action in itself. So to wash that guilt out—to eliminate the shame and discomfort you feel over doing nothing as the world goes mad—you'll keep tuning in.