Quotes About Guilt

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

This book provides pornography with an ideology. It gives back to women what anti-porn feminism has taken away: the right to pursue their own sexuality without shame or apology, without guilt or censure.

Guilt is hard to live with, but it exists to help us put things right while we still have the chance.

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

Wie wunderbar ist es, dass kein Mensch seine Schuld öffentlich zeigen muss. Wie entsetzlich ist es, dass jeder Mensch seine Schuld in seinem Inneren jeden Tag anschauen muss.

This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual consciousness and from breaking through the barriers of sexual repression, of keeping alive their sexual anxieties and guilt feelings. The very existence of woman as a sexual being would threaten authoritarian ideology; her recognition and social affirmation would mean its collapse.

Monogamy doesn't work unless it rises up from the bones. Because it promises nothing but fear and tension when forced on you. It fills you up with despair where there might be joy. It shoves guilt and paranoia and self-loathing down your throat, if you don't truly want it.

Criminal lawyer. Or is that redundant?

Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.

Many decisions are based on beliefs concerning the likelihood of uncertain events such as the outcome of an election, the guilt of a defendant, or the future value of the dollar.

Pitao sam se da li bi ljudi koji tako rado govore o dostojanstvu u ovakvoj situaciji mogli sa?uvati red i pristojnost. Što se mene ti?e, ja sam ostao na tepihu ose?aju?i da živim trenutak u kome mi je sve potaman, u kome nisam pocepan, u kome sam u sebi jedinstven i spokojan. A onda mi je u deli?u sekunde na pamet pala misao da i u ovoj sobi možda postoji kamera, a sa njom se odmah pojavio i Laurin lik i ose?aj krivice što je varam i stalno lažem.

Mom was always getting it half right—she came to my rescue when I needed it but still found a way to blame me for needing to be rescued in the first place.

Fucking black was fucking exotic. And America loves to fuck exotic. Put black vengeance and white guilt together in the same bed and you had a night to remember!

What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept soundly.

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere

Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.

Prefiero irme a la tumba sintiéndome culpable por pedir más de lo que he recibido que por perderme respuestas por no haber pedido.

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason --telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.

Da qualche parte in mezzo alle urla, il dolore leggero al fianco, la colpa, la perdita, sento una spina graffiarmi la retina... o forse è dietro, dentro al mio occhio, in fondo.

The German root word for "debt" is the same as for "guilt.

something bad happens and I hadn't worried about it, I'll feel guilty. This belief leads you to treat worry as a duty, or maybe even a beneficial activity. If you shirk your duty, bad things will happen and they'll be your fault.

If you want to protect yourself from "fear and guilt," and those are the crucial pincers, the real long-term destroyers of will, you have to get rid of all your instincts to compromise, to meet people halfway. You have to learn to stand aloof, never give openings for deals, never level with your adversaries. You have to become what Ivan Denisovich called a "slow movin' cagey prisoner.

I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.

You're so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I'll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.