Quotes About Guilt

It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modeling self-destructive behavior, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt. And in the end you will want to quit, like Greg, or be forced to by your body.

Imagine guilt as an iron band fastened around something that is growing: the trunk of a tree, the neck of a child. Sooner or later, one of two things must happen. If the band does not break, the growing thing will be deformed. "Commit yourself to change, Lixia, to living in the present, to making and remaking who you are. Do the best you can. Understand what you do. And do not feel guilty.

La culpa la tiene tu cabeza que no sabe calmarse, busca sin cesar una manera de funcionar

Non ci sono gesti, parole, sospiri che non contengano la somma di tutti i crimini che hanno commesso e commettono gli esseri umani.

Você se engana, a verdade é que tudo parece já feito e você não tem nenhum bom motivo para se esforçar. Sente apenas a culpa pelo que você é sem ter merecido.

I, however, have really never been anywhere yet, not because some sins or other could wrap themselves around me there, but because I'd rather sin at home, where God even announces the weather to me in advance on TV, slowly, so that I can write it down, in case it's worth the proper guilt. Sinning is enough, there's no need for surprises as well.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.

I had a slab of German chocolate cake the size of a child's tombstone. Ralph

Everyone reacted differently to being spoken to in a language they didn't understand. Katya got quiet and scared. Ivan leaned forward with an amused expression. Grisha narrowed his eyes and nodded in a manner suggesting the dawn of comprehension. Boris, a bearded doctoral student, rifled guiltily through his notes like someone having a nightmare that he was already supposed to speak Russian.

If divorce is like death, then is not the perpetration of divorce a kind of murder? That is, are we not risking putting ourselves through the same torment—the same sleepless nights, feelings of persecution and guilt, the regret—as one of those pathetic characters from a Dostoevsky novel? It's like you've just struck your wife with a candelabra and now you're looking at her lifeless body on the floor, and suddenly she looks pretty.

It is indeed no small matter to know one's own guilt and one's own evil, and there is certainly nothing to be gained by losing sight of one's shadow. When we are conscious of our guilt we are in a more favourable position – we can at least hope to change and improve ourselves

But unlike many of his detractors, one suspects, Jung worked on his shadow: 'It is indeed no small matter to know one's own guilt and one's own evil, and there is certainly nothing to be gained by losing sight of one's shadow. When we are conscious of our guilt we are in a more favourable position – we can at least hope to change and improve ourselves' (CW X, para. 440).

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

I saw everything before me in good order, possible, realized or realizable. Nevertheless, it was as if I, I myself, might generate failure. Not that I judged myself guilty of this failure; it was as if the guilt were an inheritance and had little to do with me. I was equipped with a kind of advance resignation. Everything is possible, I saw, and in the end every possibility can be exhausted.

He had so little experience, or so little capacity for real introspection, he didn't imagine the guilt and anguish lying in wait; he didn't even ask himself what Judith Biely might be feeling. She didn't exist for him in an autonomous, complete way but only as a projection of his own desire

Él volvió a sonreír con su sonrisa triste y culpable, y yo comprendí que me había equivocado de nuevo, que no era un don tener mucha memoria en un lugar como aquél.

A life is a game in which anyone can make loads of money by doing things without guilt & shame, but a person can make own name only by being different and that means often punishment from the people.

A person who can speak lies relentlessly without guilt and shame is often invited as analyst/specialist/expert for panel discussion of news channels and one who could also play with the emotion of the people oft spends longer duration and even becomes a regular member of the team

Guilty conscience goes to Crafty Guru to atone for own sin.

Her body consented willingly to all that her soul found most abhorrent. As Nicholas had promised, there was a hellish delight in knowing she was damned.

There's no sinner like a young saint.

There is no sinner like a young saint.

The only shame is the sin.