Quotes About Guilt

But Fiona had known even before she'd gone to a therapist or taken medications that no medical plan would work. Her behaviors had arisen purely and completely from the guilt and shame in what she'd done to Lana. After all, they hadn't existed before Lana—not even when Lana's teasing was at its worst.

She thought about how Chase had looked at her at Scarlet's funeral reception—like she was the worst person on earth. And the fact that he hadn't reached out to her at all this week. Just as she was worried that Scarlet had somehow contacted Camille before she died, she feared that Scarlet had told Chase, too. It could explain why he'd stayed away from her.

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

I want to go to the mother, take her hand, and tell her that although she and her daughter believe that every bad choice the daughter has ever made in life is her fault, it's not. It's really, really not.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.

In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

Vous avez cru qu'il suffisait d'être parfaite pour être heureuse ; j'ai cru suffisant, pour être heureux, de n'être plus coupable.

Guilt is a self-indulgence.

Whether we choose to focus on the guilt in their personality, or the innocence in their soul, is up to us.

The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The Holy Spirit seeks intimacy through acceptance and release.

My ego mind—my own self-hatred masquerading as self-love—would point me always in the direction of fear, luring me toward the blaming thought, the attack or defense, the perception of guilt in myself or others.