Guilt Quotes
Honest lines about the weight of conscience.
This set covers guilt from several angles: a flat refusal to carry it, a warning that glory built on selfishness curdles into shame, and a wry observation about feeling worst over sins never actually committed. It treats guilt as something worth examining rather than simply enduring. See related feelings under Emotion quotes.
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.
When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.
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Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling 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.
I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.
When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.
The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.
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Read together, these quotes suggest guilt says as much about our values as about our actions. For more on working through difficult feelings, visit Healing or Reflection quotes.
