Guilt Quotes - Page 35

• Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values.... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Sacrifice, Maturity, Our Generation

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• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Anger, Years, House

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• Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates.

  George Ryan

  Animal, Errors, Punishment

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• You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves.

  Ursula Burns

  Volleyball, Games

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• I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Children, Butterfly, Justice

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• I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.

  Naomi Benaron

  Mother, Holocaust, Shadow

  "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.

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• See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands,
  And justifies himself with lifted hands.
  Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes,
  Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.

  John Bunyan

  Eye, Hands, Pharisees

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• Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

  Ayn Rand

  Innocence, Grants

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.842, Penguin

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• There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Running, Dream, Men

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• Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. You are the gateway of the devil; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam. Because of what you deserve, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.

  Tertullian

  Sex, Son, Law

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• We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

  Athenagoras of Athens

  People, Looks, Killing

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• Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

  Horatius Bonar

  Men, Evil, Sin

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.7

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• By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of their Peers, they are either convicted, or acquitted. I have some times thought that we Women are hardly dealt by since strictly speaking, we cannot legally be tried by our Peers, for men are not our Peers, and yet upon their breath our guilt or innocence depends— thus are our privileges in this, as in many other respects tyrannically abridged, and we are forced to yield to necessity.

  Judith Sargent Murray

  Men, Yield, Law

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• Sometimes a King has to do terrible things in order to protect those he has sworn to look after. When the stakes are so high, dreadful decisions have to be taken. It is the responsibility of a King to take on that burden, that guilt.

  Cressida Cowell

  Kings, Taken, Responsibility

  Cressida Cowell (2013). “How to Betray a Dragon's Hero”, p.368, Hachette UK

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• Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Men, Doe, Looks

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• There's only one difference between Jews and Catholics. Jews are born with guilt, and Catholics have to go to school to learn it.

  Elayne Boosler

  School, Differences, Catholic

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• Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Grace, Trying, Huffing

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.13, Multnomah

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• This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do. This understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip.

  Bo Lozoff

  Real, Responsibility, Lasting Change

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.41, Penguin

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• It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• The heart is like a mirror. When we dust it off, we are able to see ourselves. The dust is all our stuff - guilt, anger - this stuff is reflected back to us. Practice removes the dust from the mirror of our hearts.

  Krishna Das

  Heart, Mirrors, Dust

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Apr 15, 2016

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• Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Regret, Sadness, Past

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• Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.

  Kris Carr

  Language, Illusion, Making Peace

  FaceBook post by Kris Carr from Mar 21, 2013

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• The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Home

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• The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

  Tony Scott

  Morning, Loss, Faces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember as a child of eight being told by a young friend that I had killed Christ. That was news to me. It's a common experience for the Jewish young. Should later generations of Germans be burdened with the guilt arising from the profound inhumanity of their ancestors? Revenge may be sweet, but guilt is non-transferable. Still, hatreds survive with the persistence of cockroaches.

  Sid Fleischman

  Sweet, Children, Revenge

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