Top Guilt Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Guilt quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Kiera Cass
Vehemently denying something always implies guilt.
- Kiera Cass
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Image of John Suckling
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
- John Suckling
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Image of Frederick Salomon Perls
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to pacify your opponent; with expressing resentment you might stir up hostility in him.
- Frederick Salomon Perls
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Image of Alyson Noel
Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.
- Alyson Noel
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Image of John Ringo
So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.
- John Ringo
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Image of Anna Godbersen
Diana knew it wouldn't be right, but then she told herself that things only looked wrong when there was someone to see you.
- Anna Godbersen
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Image of Vera Nazarian
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.
- Vera Nazarian
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Image of Veronica Roth
Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.
- Veronica Roth
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Image of Kyra Sedgwick
I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.
- Kyra Sedgwick
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Image of Banana Yoshimoto
But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.
- Banana Yoshimoto
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Image of Pete McCarthy
If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.
- Pete McCarthy
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Image of John Webster
How tedious is a guilty conscience!
- John Webster
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Image of Ernest Becker
Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.
- Ernest Becker
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Image of Mary Gaitskill
The best definition I've heard is that guilt is about what you've done, shame is about who you are. If something's out of my control, I don't feel shame about it, because what could I have done? If you're guilty, you can at least try to atone for it or make it better or not do it again. If it's who you are, you can't do much about it except change yourself, and that's pretty hard.
- Mary Gaitskill
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Image of Henri Rousseau
It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.
- Henri Rousseau
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Image of David Simon
Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The Wire. It was always planned that way; we didn't kill him because of anything he did, we don't kill off actors just to do it.
- David Simon
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Image of Kris Carr
Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.
- Kris Carr
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Image of Susan Cheever
Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.
- Susan Cheever
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Image of Dan Greenburg
I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.
- Dan Greenburg
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Image of Suzanne Curchod
Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.
- Suzanne Curchod
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Image of Penelope Leach
Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.
- Penelope Leach
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Image of Leon Morris
To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If my sins and my guilt are not transferred to Him, if He did not take them upon Himself, then surely they remain with me. If He did not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still hangs over me. There is no other possibility.
- Leon Morris
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Image of Damien Rice
They wanted to 'radiofy' what I was doing. I was also in a position where I was compromised. I was much younger and maybe it is because I am Irish but there was a guilt factor when the record company pays you a lot of money, you feel obliged.
- Damien Rice
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Image of Brenda De Banzie
You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.
- Brenda De Banzie
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Image of Gordon Clark
Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed
- Gordon Clark
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Image of Kurt Waldheim
There is no such thing as collective guilt.
- Kurt Waldheim
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Image of Whittaker Chambers
Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
- Whittaker Chambers
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Image of Alice McDermott
Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.
- Alice McDermott
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Image of Rosemary Daniell
Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge.
- Rosemary Daniell
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Image of Peter Eisenman
You cannot live with guilt.
- Peter Eisenman
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Image of Frank Moore Colby
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
- Frank Moore Colby
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Image of David D. Burns
Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.
- David D. Burns
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Image of Pascal Bruckner
Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.
- Pascal Bruckner
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Image of Elin Hilderbrand
Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.
- Elin Hilderbrand
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Image of Ezekiel Emanuel
Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.
- Ezekiel Emanuel
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Image of William Morley Punshon
The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.
- William Morley Punshon
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Image of William Sargant
In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.
- William Sargant
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Image of Andrew Sandlin
For socialists, not just the wealth, but the guilt must be redistributed.
- Andrew Sandlin
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Image of Helene Deutsch
[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.
- Helene Deutsch
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Image of Evelyn Tribole
Intuitive Eaters march to their inner hunger signals, and eat whatever they choose without experiencing guilt or an ethical dilemma.
- Evelyn Tribole
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Image of Morton Irving Seiden
It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.
- Morton Irving Seiden
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Image of Katharine Fullerton Gerould
You can bear anything if it is not your fault.
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Image of Jonah Goldberg
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the motives of their accusers because the fact of their guilt was undeniable. In the 1960s, over a thousand psychiatrists who'd never even met Barry Goldwater signed a petition saying the GOP candidate was too mentally unstable to be president.
- Jonah Goldberg
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Image of Charles James
He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.
- Charles James
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Image of Bill Konigsberg
Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.
- Bill Konigsberg
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Image of Anthony Hopkins
Guilt is the thief of life.
- Anthony Hopkins
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Image of Anne Spencer
Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
- Anne Spencer
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Image of Nathaniel Culverwell
Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.
- Nathaniel Culverwell
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Image of Tom Hodgkinson
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.
- Tom Hodgkinson
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Image of Brooks Atkinson
Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.
- Brooks Atkinson
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