Guilt Quotes

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

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

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

When I feel like I'm not doing what I am supposed to as a mother, I will torture myself. I don't know how to deal with it. I find some consolation in the fact that all mommies feel it. If there was a way to cure mommy guilt, I would bottle it and be a bazillionaire.

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

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.

You want to give me chocolate and flowers? That would be great. I love them both. I just don't want them out of guilt, and I don't want them if you're not going to give them to all the people who helped mother our children.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

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 carry lots of guilt.

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

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

December 25th has become guilt and obligation.

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.

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

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

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

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

But I don't believe in guilt by association.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.