Guilt Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

  Alan Moore

  Dark, Imagination, Healthy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.

  Doreen Virtue

  Apology, Giving, Care

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• Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Shining, Modesty

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• Today I detach from other people's dramas. I love them and pray for them. I am a role model of peace for them. But I no longer rescue them, or put my own needs last. It is my right to be happy and to help others as I feel lovingly guided instead from guilt or obligation. I respect my feelings and expect others to do so too. And so it is!

  Doreen Virtue

  Drama, Helping Others, Role Models

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Aug 15, 2012

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• Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

  John Bevere

  Giving, Grace, Shame

  Twitter post from Jan 01, 2015

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• If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Depressing, Disappointment, Feelings

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• If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mistake, Punishment, Feels

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Patanjali Yoga Sutras”, p.112, Arktos

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• Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Letting Go, Perfection, Empowering

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 06, 2015

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