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Quotes About Blame

I Find That Resentment, Criticism, Guilt, and Fear Cause More Problems Than Anything Else These four things cause the major problems in our bodies and in our lives. These feelings come from blaming others and not taking responsibility for our own experiences. You see, if we are all responsible for everything in our lives, then there is no one to blame. Whatever is happening "out there" is only a mirror of our own inner thinking.
~ Louise L. Hay
Why didn't my mother see it? Why didn't she stop it? Why did she always blame me? Why did I always blame her? But it has always been easier to blame women, a string of lies tied to an apple. No one blames Adam for taking a bite of his own volition. No one blames God for the harshness of the punishment. Eve always pays for the sins.
~ Unknown
When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.
~ Louise Penny
So who was the fox?" "The cunning one who convinces the others that someone innocent is actually guilty. Blaming the victim.
~ Louise Penny
Pierre Patenaude's small world, where wretched actions could be justified, and others blamed.
~ Louise Penny
most of her clients didn't really want to get better. They wanted a pill and reassurance that whatever was wrong wasn't their fault.
~ Louise Penny
Nothing I ever gave was good for you,' quoted Gamache. 'It was like white bread to a goldfish.' Beside him Ruth Zardo stiffened, then in a low growl she finished her own poem. 'They cram and cram, and it kills them, and they drift in the pool, belly up, making stunned faces and playing on our guilt as if their own toxic gluttony was not their fault.
~ Louise Penny
The moon is queen of everything. She rules the oceans, rivers, rain. When I am asked whose tears these are; I always blame the moon.
~ Lucille Clifton
Excusatio Non Petita, Acusatio Manifesta.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.
~ Jodi Picoult
Whatever your father did was not this woman's fault. And if she made him happy, when I obviously didn't, then the last thing you should be doing is yelling at her.
~ Jodi Picoult
Whether or not you believe in fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance?
~ Jodi Picoult
Taking credit for what a child did well also meant accepting responsibility for what they did wrong.
~ Jodi Picoult
I am angry at myself, at the world, but because it is easier, I lash out at him.
~ Jodi Picoult
Whether or not you believe in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault—that if you'd tried better, or worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance?
~ Jodi Picoult
Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a fuck about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand.
~ Jodi Picoult
It is not suffering as such that makes someone appreciate love, it is only when suffering pierces our vanity—which happens when we do not blame someone else for our pain—that it awakens a deeper respect for love.
~ John Armstrong
Forgiveness breaks the cycle! It doesn't settle all the questions of blame, justice, or fairness, but it does allow relationships to heal and possibly start over.
~ Unknown
When we blame others and defend our own position, we are blind. We struggle to remove the speck out of our brother's eye while there is a log in ours. It is the revelation of truth that brings freedom to us. When the Spirit of God shows us our sin, He always does it in such a way that it seems separate from us. This brings conviction, not condemnation.
~ John Bevere
There's nothing more tedious than a grown man blaming his parents, birth or otherwise, for all the things that have gone wrong in his life.
~ John Boyne
So when the shit hits the fan, remember: all of this is your fault.
~ John Boyne
And they would surely find some way of suggesting that you were as guilty as any of us. No matter how young you were.
~ John Boyne
I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father'.
~ John Boyne
By doing nothing, you did everything. By taking no responsibility, you bear all responsibility.
~ John Boyne