Quotes About Guilt

No one should feel guilty about the past. Unless they're not doing anything about the present.

You wouldn't know it had claimed so many hopeful, thrashing, gasping lives, but that's the thing with the sea, it never looks guilty.

In retrospect, though many were guilty, none was innocent.

It must be pleasant to be occasionally guilty of a small abomination.

To us] The only thing worse than trying to kill yourself and failing is having to talk to your mom after trying to kill yourself and failing-- particularly when she knows deep down somewhere it's at least partially her fault, but her mouth and brain have never actually formed the phrase "I'm sorry" in her entire life, so here you are, with nothing but a berry smoothie between you, and... and...

morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

The price of deceit is to feel like a cockroach.

Some part of him must know this is unreasonable even as he thinks it. But his mind can't accept the alternative. If it's all his fault, what earthly excuse does he have be still breathing?

He is so committed to his guilt. He needs Michael's death to be his fault. It's what keeps his brother alive for him—that connection. As though, as long as he still has a confession to make, Michael will be forced one day to return in order to hear it. Without that prospect, there is only an ending.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction.

Cuando advenga un tiempo no más empañado por la sombra de esa mala conciencia de la propia culpabilidad, entonces el instinto de conservación de sí mismo creará la tranquilidad íntima, la fuerza exterior para poder actuar sin contemplaciones en la eliminación de los brotes dañinos de la mala hierba.

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

I cannot hide my anger to spare your guilt.

As soon as I was visibly and clearly pregnant, I felt, for the first time in my adolescent and adult life, not-guilty.

Very few men imprisoned for economic crimes or even crimes of passion against the oppressor feel that they are really guilty.

I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.

I had lost my son 20 years back, when I was at the peak of my career. I couldn't really get time to even feel that loss. I used to be continuously busy with work and this would make me feel guilty: I didn't even have the time to mourn my son's death.

Michael Cohen is a criminal, and he deserves the max penalty.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.