Guilt Quotes

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

I carry lots of guilt.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.