Quotes About Guilt

We have all been found guilty of being human. There are worse crimes.

It's awfully good of some people to have asked me to take the job, but I'd rather read about a grand escape than plan one. Besides, I'm terrible at keeping secrets and I hate to scheme against people. It seems rude. I don't deal with guilt well and I'm worried we might hurt some feelings in the process of defending ourselves. Also, I am juggling a couple of books. Being a full-time conspirator would take away from my reading time.

Com todos nós andando com uma sentença de morte gravada na própria pele, qual a necessidade de se punir? Fomos todos considerados culpados de sermos humanos. Existem crimes piores.

She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn't, she knew, terribly sophisticated of her, but she had no real guilt about it. She felt the English were themselves to blame for her feelings. They had spent a century relentlessly marketing their detectives and wizards and nannies, and they had to live with the results.

Problem with this world is we've lost the idea of shame and guilt. We need a little of that. No one thinks they ever do bad anymore. They just do different.

sight all that sounds?" Harry asked. "That's why I take my fee up front," Smith said. "No offense, Lou," he added. "Harry's right. It doesn't make sense," Blues said. "King was acquitted of the Byrnes murders. He could take out an ad on a billboard admitting he did it and never do a day in jail. A civil case is just money and he has enough to make that go away." "Dixon, are you trying

It's amazing what will happen when our soul gets healthy. When we get free from bitterness, the guilt, the stress, the worry, the anger. That's when healing is released. That's when you'll see the blessing of God in new ways.

How much space are you giving to guilt, to shame, to regret, to being against yourself? Whatever it is, it's too much. You need that space for the good things God has for you that will move you toward your destiny. If you're giving space to guilt, you will not have the confidence you need to move forward, which will cause you to fail again. It's a negative cycle. The only way to break the cycle is to

Your soul may feel broken, wounded, hurt from mistakes you've made or from what someone else did. But your soul can be restored. When you get honest with yourself and you release what you need to release—guilt, worry, anger, jealousy—then healing will come. Joy will come.

No dejes que la culpa envenene tu futuro. Vacíate de ella.

How much time are you spending down on yourself, feeling guilty for past mistakes, telling God what you don't deserve? That's a lot of emotional energy that's not doing any good. God hears you; He knows you're sincere. But God is not moved by our guilt; He's moved by our faith.

Looking back on that day, I can't help but wonder: what if I had brought more bread for the ducks? Did I bring this on myself?

Up until I met these scientists, I thought that mind-wandering—what I was doing in Provincetown so much, and so pleasurably—was the opposite of attention, and that's why I felt guilty about doing it. I realized I was wrong. It is actually a different form of attention—and a necessary one.

there is no crime of which I cannot conceive myself guilty.

Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

Good and bad, two ways Of moving about your death By the grinding sea, King of your heart in the blind days, Blow away like breath, Go crying through you and me And the souls of all men Into the innocent Dark, and the guilty dark, and good Death, and bad death, and then In the last element Fly like the stars' blood

I have not met any enjoyment I have not had to expiate one way or another.

I can't even say sorry," she tells me. "There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.

Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done...But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.

Every time Gat said these things, so casual and truthful, so oblivious—my veins opened. My wrists split. I bled down my palms. I went light-headed. I'd stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony, hoping no one in the family would notice. Especially not Mummy.