Guilt Quotes

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Him, Free, Needs

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.
Angelina Jolie

Life, Hurt, Live

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.
John Lennon

Love, Peace, Thinking

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck

Giving, Gift, Keeps

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.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Themselves, Convinced, Judges

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

Love, Work, Future

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

Love, Food, Career

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand

Accept, Worst, Unearned

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Gilbert Parker

Good, Beautiful, Mind

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

Death, Painful, Perhaps

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams

Anger, Others, Ourselves

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

Selfish, Principles, Shame

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Find, Innocence, Protection

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

Men, Mind, Moral

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Place, Problems, Ourselves

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

Friendly, Hard, May

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. Laing

True, Felt, False

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.
Jim Carrey

Success, Care, Everyone

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.
Jim Carrey

Success, Character, Care

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
Keira Knightley

Live, Away, Ask

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir

Truth, Sense, Duty

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen

Misery, Dwell, Pens

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

Knowledge, Same, Tree

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.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Real, House, Call

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding

Accusation, Quick, Ears

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Bishop Robert South

Heart, Last, Conscience

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.
Friedrich Schiller

Blame, Greatness, Fortune

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.
Angie Harmon

Mother, Find, Fact

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.
Jude Law

Good, Jealousy, Live

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