Guilt Quotes - Page 16

Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

[Bill Clinton] has settled numerous lawsuits without admitting any guilt on a whole number of things. Are you saying, are you implying that settling a lawsuit is implying guilt? Because if so, it means that your candidate is guilty of an awful lot of things, no.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

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

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

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

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.

When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

If you commit a crime, you're guilty.

Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.