Guilt Quotes - Page 9

• No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

  Henry Fielding

  Loss, Evil, Anxiety

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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• He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

  Michael Pollan

  Healing, Cake, Chocolate

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.61, Penguin

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• I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Tired, Fiction

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• When you feel depressed, it helps to actively change your environment. Go and do something different. Martin Luther conquered his depression by going outside to work in his garden. Surprisingly enough, one of the best ways to handle depression is to go to work immediately on the task you least enjoy. (The chances are your depression is caused by guilt feelings arising out of neglect of those tasks.)

  R. C. Sproul

  Depression, Garden, Feelings

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• Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace with our conscience. Without conscience there would be no morality. So we can greet guilt cordially and with acceptance, just as we do all other emotions. After we respond to guilt, it has done its job and we can release it.

  Glenn R. Schiraldi

  Beautiful, Jobs, Acceptance

  Glenn R. Schiraldi (2007). “10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image”, p.126, New Harbinger Publications

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• ...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

  Abraham Verghese

  Action, Righteous, Right Action

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.139, Random House India

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• The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.

  Brennan Manning

  Brother, Father, Self

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.116, Multnomah

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• Jews who have been guilty of exploiting the black people in America, economically, civically, and otherwise, hide behind - hide their guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of being anti-Semitic, simply because he teaches our people to go into business for ourselves and take over the economic leadership in our own community.

  Malcolm X

  America, People, Community

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Eye, Blame

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The Poetical Works of Shakespeare. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait].”, p.118

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• Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief

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• Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

  Peter McWilliams

  Positive, People, Want

  John-Roger, Peter McWilliams (1991). “Life 101: everything we wish we had learned about life in school -- but didn't”

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Love, Art, Betrayal

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 29 (1766)

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• We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

  Franz Kafka

  Tree, States, Sinful Life

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

  Sándor Márai

  Giving, Doe, Facts

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• I'm a bit of a worrier, to an extreme. I'll crack a joke, then worry if I've offended someone - even when they're laughing. I have a guilt complex, always worrying.

  Sophia Bush

  Laughing, Worry, Cracks

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• When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Answers, Politics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

  Bill Watterson

  Add, Awful, Problem

  "The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, September 1988.

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• Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Clothes, People, Feelings

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• I'm not doing my philanthropic work out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

  George Soros

  Work, Believe, Needs

  "Now" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org. September 12, 2003.

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• Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.

  Florence King

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

  Drew Carey

  White, People, Hollywood

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November, 1997.

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• I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

  Larry Wilmore

  Fire, Southern, Comedy

  Source: www.wbur.org

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