Quotes on Guilt

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

Author: Omar Bradley

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

Author: Edward Burns

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

Author: Andy Dick

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

Author: James Dickey

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Author: Henry Fielding

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

Author: Isabelle Holland

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

Author: Marion Jones

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

Author: Franz Kafka

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

Author: Marge Kennedy

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

Author: Jude Law

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

Author: Heather Locklear

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

Author: Roger Mahony

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

Author: Christopher Meloni

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.

Author: Dennis Miller

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Author: Edna O'Brien

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Author: Ovid

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

Author: Titus Plautus

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

Author: V. Pritchett

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Author: Ayn Rand

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

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

Author: Susan Sontag

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Author: Georg Trakl

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

Author: Don Vliet

There is no such thing as collective guilt.

Author: Kurt Waldheim

Quotes on Guilt

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

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

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it.

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.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

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

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

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

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

There is no such thing as collective guilt.