Guilt Quotes - Page 30

• Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?

  Edward Young

  Men, Good Man, Shelter

  Edward Young (1813). “The poetical works of Edward Young. Collated with the best eds.: by T. Park”

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• Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

  Edward Young

  Men, Lasts, Firsts

  Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.42

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• A land of levity is a land of guilt.

  Edward Young

  Land, Levity

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.155

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• Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Punishment, Justice, Caught

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

  Lord Byron

  Track, Forfeit, Claims

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1373, Delphi Classics

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• Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

  Lucan

  Judging, Sides, Ifs

  "Pharsalia", VII. 263 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 345-346), 1922.

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• I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

  William Congreve

  Breeding, Blushing, Ill

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 1, sc. 9

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• All our salvation consists in the manifestation of the nature, life and spirit of Jesus Christ in our inward new man. This alone is Christian redemption, this alone delivers from the guilt and power of sin, this alone redeems and renews.

  William Law

  Christian, Jesus, Men

  William Law (1749). “I. The spirit of prayer; or, the soul rising out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity. In two parts ; 7,II. The way to divine knowledge; being several dialogues between Humanus, Academicus, Rusticus, and Theophilus”, p.24

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• A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

  Edward Young

  Tyrants, Vengeance, Share

  Edward Young (1730). “Busiris, King of Egypt. A tragedy, etc”, p.17

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• Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.

  Edward Young

  Strong, Joy, Tasting

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.234

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• The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

  Graham Greene

  Glasses, Hands, Agitation

  Graham Greene (1971). “Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus”, Viking Pr

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• Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have the rich seed-beds of Western homes found such a growing climate for guilt as is produced in the South by the combination of a warm moist evangelism and racial segregation.

  Lillian Smith

  Christian, Children, Home

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• Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

  Diane Lane

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Catholic

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• Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

  Jane Pauley

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Baby

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• I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Mind, World, Want

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their relationships are. It kills girls inside when they think they're letting their mothers down.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 9, 2009.

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• It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt - are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Practice, Feelings

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Hands, Wish

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame and guilt about the human body.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Nudists

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• Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

  Garrison Keillor

  Giving, Forever, Lasts

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• I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

  John Steinbeck

  Revenge, Thinking, Rejection

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.237, Penguin

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• There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Attitude, Ideas

  "Carlin's response? More than 7 dirty words", www.today.com. March 13, 2004.

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• Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Loneliness, Happy Life, Play

  "Balanced Life — 6 Tips for Battling Loneliness" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2011.

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• You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

  Joel Osteen

  Choices, Focus, Victory

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• Fear and guilt are your only enemies. If you let go of fear, fear lets go of you. If you release guilt, guilt will release you. How do you do that? By deciding to.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Letting Go, Enemy, Release

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 06, 2015

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