Guilt Quotes - Page 31

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.

My generation those who were students in the late 60s was always, in the words of the Who, talking about our generation. That's what we thought of ourselves, as the most important thing since sliced bread. And the "we" that we meant was really the Western Europeans and American generation. And as I think back I suppose I have a sense of guilt on behalf of my generation, a sense that we were terribly provincial and didn't understand the really important stuff that was going on in Eastern Europe.

She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

ME: You 're a sick girl. ERIN: Guilty as charged. :)

When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it—guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it—guilt.

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt.

Just the sound of his voice twists my stomach into a knot of unpleasant emotions like guilt, sadness and fear. And longing. I might as well admit there’s some of that too.

He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn't add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important.

Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.