Guilt Quotes - Page 11

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.

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.

There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.

The best thing about me is that I am generally very honest - not hurtfully honest, but honest. The worst thing about me is that everybody can make me feel guilty. I feel responsible about things that don't even concern me.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

When your party is controlled by a billionaire rootless international financier who expresses 'no sense of guilt' for collaborating with the Nazis, you might want to ease up on lecturing the rest of us about the evil rich.

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

Sometimes you can't prioritise family and you feel guilty.

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Don’t nurture a sense of guilt; rather, nurture a sense of responsibility married with a sense of humility.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

If you believe you are guilty and deserve to be punished, you are asking for it!

I feel guilty just sitting around when I know I can be doing something.

I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions his; Just heav'n! reserve your choicest plagues for him, And blast the venal wretch.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.