Guilt Quotes - Page 22

• If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

  Pete McCarthy

  Kind, Feels, Ifs

  Pete McCarthy (2014). “McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery In Ireland”, p.62, Macmillan

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• This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dinosaurs, Innocence

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• How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true.

  Fred Rogers

  Dream, Disappointment, Fall

  Fred Rogers (2003). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.94, Hachette UK

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• Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

  Stephen King

  Regret, Feelings, Desert

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Move forward with no second-guessing, no guilt trips, no hesitation. Your purpose is to recreate yourself anew in each moment.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Moving, Purpose, Guessing

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Nov 09, 2012

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• I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Lying, Responsibility

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• That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you coming. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Loneliness, People, Ministry

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.6, Macmillan

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• But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Twisted, Uncertain, Exhausting

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.182, Melville House

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• Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.

  Anne Rice

  Heart, Dust, Sorrow

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• 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.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sadness, Voice, Twists

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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• And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

  Julian Barnes

  Feelings, Stronger, Done

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.99, Random House

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• It is the mundanes who look at me and see something they do not understand—a boy who is not quite white and not quite foreign either." "Just as I am not human, and not demon either," Tessa said softly. His eyes softened. "You are human," he said. "Never think you are not. I have seen you with your brother; I know how you care for him. If you can feel hope, guilt, sorrow, love—then you are human.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Eye, Boys

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• Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

  Nora Roberts

  Regret, Unanswered Questions, Shannon

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• Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sorry, Husband, Italian

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• Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.

  Deb Caletti

  Confused, Eye, Simple

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• This is the present moment. Learn how to gobble it up without fear or guilt.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moments, Present Moment

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• Don't bother trying to guilt me. Ask my other. It doesn't work.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Trying, Bother, Asks

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• I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic . . . it's a multifaceted experience. If you lose the faith, chances are you'll keep the guilt, so it isn't as if you've been skunked altogether.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sunday, Catholic, Feelings

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.

  Veronica Roth

  Honesty, Knowing, Tobias

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• Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Air, Order

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• No one blames her." "That never matters," said Alec. "Not when you blame yourself.

  Cassandra Clare

  Matter, Blame, Lost Souls

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

  Veronica Roth

  Self, Tools, Weapons

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• Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fear, People, Worry

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• Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice to be generative in other ways can at last be made, and is being made by many women now, without guilt.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Real, Motherhood

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• Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time.

  Veronica Roth

  Next, Teach, Behave

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