Guilty Quotes - Page 9

• I have been guilty of wrong thinking.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Thinking, Wrong Thinking, Has Beens

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• I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

  Connie Willis

  Trials

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• I have moments that aren't too bad, but there's always something I'm struggling with, or feeling guilty about. I just figured I needed to try harder, but I find it difficult to sustain that motivation.

  William P. Young

  Motivation, Struggle, Feelings

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• I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Want, Feels

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

  Max Frisch

  Ifs, Conscience

  Max Frisch (1992). “Three Plays”

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• Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pity, Innocent, Treason

  "Faith Of The Fallen". Book by Terry Goodkind, August 22, 2000.

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• Time for bed.” I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.

  James Patterson

  Sleep, Tree, Bed

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• Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

  Rob Bell

  Christ, Feels

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• From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

  William Wordsworth

  Forgiveness, Body, Haunting

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.239

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• Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

  Ray Bradbury

  Long, Coward, Way

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

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• Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Children, Father, Son

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.74, Ignatius Press

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• I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

  Ann Marie Buerkle

  Pleasure, Guilty Pleasure

  "Meet the Lawmaker Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.), 25th District". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. April 4, 2011.

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• Hovind said he was entering a not guilty plea 'under duress'.

  Kent Hovind

  Entering, Duress, Said

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• In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

  Paul Ekman

  Hurt, Care, May

  Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen (2003). “Unmasking the Face: A Guide to Recognizing Emotions from Facial Clues”, p.79, ISHK

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• I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hurt, Blue, Play

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

  William Shakespeare

  Degrees, Bars, Tongue

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 194

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• there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cities, Feelings, Let Me

  Charles Bukowski, “Young In New Orleans”

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• When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Leadership, Men, Republic

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• Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of? Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Jesus, Expression, Forgiving

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• Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Mother, Men, Innocent Man

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Hawksong”, p.173, Delacorte Press

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• Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are the people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it is a matter of emotion, not logic. You see angry people aren't interested in justice, they just want an excuse to vent their rage.

  Ilona Andrews

  People, Justice, Enemy

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• I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

  Veronica Roth

  Wish, Guilt, Felt

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• I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had suffered enough to pay for it. God revealed to me what I was doing how much unnecessary pain I was causing myself. He even showed me that what I was doing was an insult to Jesus that in essence I was saying Lord the sacrifice of Your life and blood was good but not good enough. I must add my work of feeling guilty before I can be forgiven.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Pain, Sacrifice

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• Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff and then another one. His smile widened though it was still shy. It was absolutely adorable and my breath got caught somewhere in my throat.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hands, Adorable, Littles

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.55, Scholastic Inc.

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• Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Growing Up, Years

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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