Guilt Quotes - Page 24

Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

Don't lose sleep over things you cannot change! Wash away guilt - it's not worth it.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

We can think about how we reduce the pain in paying. So, for example, credit cards are wonderful mechanisms to reduce the pain of paying. If you go to a restaurant and you are paying cash, you would feel much worse than if you were paying with credit card. Why? You know the price, there's no surprise, but if you're paying cash, you feel a bit more guilt.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don’t make you feel guilty about always chasing it.

Self-condemnation is God's absolution; and pleading guilty, acquittal at his bar.

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

One key to successful relationships is learning to say "no" without guilt, so that you can say "yes" without resentment.

In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.