Quotes About Guilt

I used to joke about the fact that I crammed eighty years of guilt into the first twenty years of my life. It

F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

he said. "It's not your fault." "I shouldn't have played you. I should have canceled the whole game. It's my fault." "I wanted to play. I wanted to win." "It's just a game," he said. "It's not worth all this.

God, I wanted to be forgiven, but an apology offered to a dead man is only a selfish apology to yourself.

Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.

When you first take someone's life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human being you used to be. You're never the same after that—it changes you forever and not in a good way —and no matter how hard you try, you can't go back to the innocence you had. Ever.

Like this cake. It's really very good. (Arik) As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)

My mother's dying and may not live through the week. So, yes, I'd rather die trying to save her than live with the guilt of wondering if I could have. If you can't understand caring that much for someone you love then you're one coldhearted bastard. (Abbie)

What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life.

I always have the feeling that I'm sitting around not doing anything with my life. A little Calvinist guilt that I should be more productive.

All my life I've been dogged by guilt because I feel there is this difference between the way I look and the way I feel inside.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

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.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

La sensación de estar cometiendo un pecado estaba bien para pasar un rato, pero al final resultaba agotador.

Koffie! Ik moet er niet aan denken, op dit uur van de dag!' mopperde Duncan. 'Dan komt er niets meer van slapen vannacht.' 'Gelukkig heb ik dat probleempje niet, majesteit!' antwoordde Will. En hij voegde er met een lachje aan toe: 'Maar ik heb dan ook een schoon geweten.' Evanlyn maakte een onbeleefd geluid. 'Ha, als er ooit een Grijze Jager is geweest met een schoon geweten, dan was jij het zeker niet, stiekemerd.

Me?" Will said, his voice breaking into a high-pitched squeak of indignation. "What's it got to do with me?" "It's all your fault!" Halt shouted irrationally. And as he said it, the two girls realized he was right.

Invoked a curse and swore (Matt. 26:74; Mark 14:71). The text does not specify on whom Peter called down curses, though the ESV and other translations include "on himself," implying that he was calling for curses to come upon him if he was lying. Alternatives are that he was cursing the ones who were accusing him of knowing Christ or that he was actually cursing Christ, amplifying his sense of guilt. Certainty is not possible.

for a fallen soul, an act of wrong could, at time, feel very right, and that scared the hell out of me.

I'm a killer, not a thief.

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.