Guilt Quotes - Page 37

• There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

  Jean Racine

  May, Too Much, Virtue

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• Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

  Jean Racine

  Fall, Vices, Small Steps

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• Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Men, Dignity

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters In Search of an Author”, p.19, Jester House Publishing

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• The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.

  Ramakrishna

  Night, Fool, Bondage

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• The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

  Jonathan Raban

  Dream, Cities, Feelings

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• To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.

  Catherine Cookson

  Drinking, Way, Milk

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• I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point does a healthy amount become too much? There are, of course, those who suffer because their desire for sex has become compulsive; in their case the drive (loneliness, guilt) is at fault, not the activity as such. When morality is discussed I invariably discover, halfway into the conversation, that what is meant are not the great ethical questions but the rather dreary business of sexual habit, which to my mind is an aesthetic rather than an ethical issue.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Loneliness, Ethical Questions

  "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America". Book by Edmund White, 1980.

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• The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

  Norman Tebbit

  Home, Sunset, Views

  The Independent, February 24, 1990.

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• It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

  Louise Hay

  Self, Hatred, Suffering

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.24, Hay House, Inc

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• To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Degrees, Audacity

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Flight

  Samuel Johnson, A.F. Neuwieller (1857). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale”, p.12

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• Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd;
  Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave,
  Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.
  But for one end, one much-neglected use,
  Are riches worth your care; (for nature's wants
  Are few, and without opulence supplied;)
  This noble end is, to produce the soul;
  To show the virtues in their fairest light;
  To make humanity the minister
  Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast
  The generous luxury the gods enjoy.

  John Armstrong

  Sunshine, Light, Luxury

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• He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

  Juvenal

  Crime

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• Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender.
  [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se
  Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

  Juvenal

  Vices, Proportion, Offenders

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• My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.

  Ellen Goodman

  Fitness, Stress, Age

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Christian, Years, Two

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• guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

  Robin Morgan

  Politics, Boring, Backlash

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Saturday's Child: A Memoir”, p.334, Open Road Media

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• we have invented sex guilt to take our minds off the real thing.

  Muriel Spark

  Sex, Real, Mind

  Muriel Spark (1967). “The Mandelbaum Gate”

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• The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Fall, Pride

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• Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

  Horace

  Pale, Clear, Turns

  "Epistles", I. 1. 60, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 130-31, 1922.

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• A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence--it is atonement.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Race, Done, Atonement

  Albert Schweitzer (1958). “A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer”, Boston : [s.n.], 1958 (Boston : H.N. Sawyer Company)

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• To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

  Samuel Johnson

  Secret, Secrecy, Communicate

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• If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

  May Sarton

  Artist, Self, Joy

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Political, Danger

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• Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Animal, Men, Meat

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