1,201 Quotes About Guilt

Now I need to speak directly and with compassion to those who have already pushed open the door of premarital sex. The monster has been released. You've lost your virginity and may have been sexually active for years. Perhaps you've been carrying a load of guilt for doing what you knew was wrong.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

The presence of the inner feeling of emptiness directs our attention to a past experience of guilt and to our inner feeling awareness of the cause in the past. We must be sensitive to that feeling and accept it in order to chase down the cause, ferret it out, reassess the value of the experience to us in order not to further project the blame in anger outward to an external cause.

At any given time, we are all doing the best we can. The problem is, our best often isn’t good enough for us. We then punish ourselves, denying ourselves peace because we feel we don’t deserve it. A sad situation remedied when we finally accept, we are doing the best we can.

After having everything, a rich man seeks applause and reverence, for there is guilt in his mind. The guilt of having everything in this world.

Even with the very best of intentions, even with the ambition of making the world a better place, when we cast judgment upon people whose lifestyles, beliefs, or predilections we dislike, we add to the emotional filth of hostility and make the world feel a little less safe for the folks we’re genuinely trying to help.

The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.

You are responsible for overcoming guilt by rising above it, by growing beyond yourselves, by changing for the better.

How could I castrate my mind--neuter it!--and build up a resistance to know what was mine from what was everyone else's, and finally be in the world in my own way? That endless capacity for empathy--which you have to really kill in order to act freely, to know your own desires!