Guilt Quotes - Page 14

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest) in the public worship of God, as it now is (with the claim that it is the Christianity of the New Testament), thou hast constantly one guilt the less, and that a great one: thou dost not take part in treating God as a fool by calling that the Christianity of the New Testament which is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

I never feel guilty about liking music.

Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.

Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A very simple, but very cunning trick to manipulate you. They have condemned you, because if you are accepted, not condemned - loved, appreciated, and if it is relayed to you from everywhere that you are okay - then it will be difficult to control you. How to control a person who is absolutely okay? The very problem doesn`t arise.

I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure.

My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same.

This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

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.

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

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

If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.