Guilt Quotes

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

The guilt of newborns is immense.

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

There is no such thing as collective guilt.

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.