Guilt Quotes - Page 12

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

When we look squarely at injustice and get involved, we actually feel less pain, not more, because we overcome the gnawing guilt and despair that festers under our numbness. We clean the wound - our own and others' - and it can finally heal.

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet been built.

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.

In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.

The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

Every working mom I know is constantly walking some kind of a tightrope of guilt.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

You cannot live with guilt.