Quotes About Guilt

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Someone who is in harmony no matter what he does, no matter what is happening to him, knows that his psychic energy is not being wasted on doubt, regret, guilt, and fear, but is always usefully employed.

There has perhaps been no lie greater than the one told of a devil awaiting sinners in hell. Any good it may have done in preventing people from sinning has surely been offset by the mass manipulation it makes possible, extracting subservience from what become confused, unhappy lives filled with regret, guilt, and fear.

I've told you before I'm not guilty of anything; I'm just guilty, that's all.

Desire is powerful. As the Buddhist teacher Mark Epstein writes, "Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully." 2

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

You feel guilty when you do something wrong, but you feel shame when you feel like you are something wrong.

Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow, the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe such cruel ideals.

That evening, when Noa did not call her, she realized that she had not given him her home number in Yokohama. In the morning, Hansu phoned her. Noa had shot himself a few minutes after she'd left his office.

He could never replace her. And he felt he had done her a great injustice by not having told her this.

Noa had been a sensitive child who had believed that if he followed all the rules and was the best, then somehow the hostile world would change its mind. His death may have been her fault for having allowed him to believe in such cruel ideals.

It was a sure sign of guilt: giving too much information about my cover story was

Once again, a pang of conscience tweaked the skin around my eyes.

On the whole, "offenders" are foods we tend to eat compulsively, with less actual pleasure than you might think. Often they are poor versions of something better.

Chi si sente colpevole, cerca sempre la redenzione" "Chi ha commesso una colpa non può e non ha il diritto di cercare la morte, deve vivere, sopportando la sofferenza, friggere come un pesce rivoltato nell'olio, cuocersi nel dolore, come una medicina nel calderone, per scontare la sua colpa, fino a quando sarà lavata e soltanto allora trovare pace nella morte".

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.

His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.

Varl?klar?n? özür diler gibi suçlu duygularla k?vranarak ya?ayan, ancak sevilirlerse dünya taraf?ndan ba???lanacaklar?n? dü?ünen, bütün o bedbaht kad?nlar?n, o dipsiz sevilme ve ?efkat ihtiyac? sonuçta esaretleri oluyor.

A woman in a relationship subconsciously continues to play with childish voodoo dolls manipulated with guilt.

The binary code of human behavior is based on the reciprocity algorithm: justice, guilt, conscience.