Guilty Quotes - Page 38

• I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

  Daniel Defoe

  Inspirational, People, Empathy

  Daniel Defoe, James T. Boulton (1975). “Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe”, p.166, CUP Archive

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• I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Race, Big Sur

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.133, BookBaby

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• I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Giving, Three, Bottles

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• What really matters is that we should all of us realize that we are guilty of inhumanity. The horror of this realization should shakes us out of our lethargy so that we can direct our hopes and our intentions to the coming of an era in which war will have no place.

  Albert Schweitzer

  War, Realization, Matter

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• The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors.

  Marcel Proust

  Morning, War, Men

  Le Temps Retrouve (Time Regained) (1926) (translation by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin)

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• Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late he had become frightened of the government for the first time in his life, the way the structure of democracy had begun debasing people rather than enlivening them in their mutual concern. The structure was no longer concerned with the purpose for which it was designed, and a small part of the cause, Nordstrom thought, was probably that all politicians and bureaucrats wore suits.

  Jim Harrison

  Government, Years, People

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Legends of the Fall”, p.109, Atlantic Books

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• Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Struggle, Rights

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• Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, People, Littles

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.591, Macmillan

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• Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

  Leonard Cohen

  Torches, Dear, Not Guilty

  Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books

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• He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than that. So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn't even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway?

  Nick Hornby

  Pain, Real, Expression

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.127, Penguin

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• If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, Darkness, Les Mis

  "Les Misérables". Book by Victor Hugo. Chapter IV: Works Answer Words, 1862.

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• Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Responsible

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1986). “The Wisdom of Heschel”, p.284, Macmillan

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• Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything

  Elizabeth Strout

  Catholic, Made, Boxes

  Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.10, Random House

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• Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?' No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.' He paused. And that is how I began to heal.

  Mitch Albom

  People, Cursing, Said

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they are guilty themselves. […] There is no fault which makes a man more unpopular, and no fault which we are more unconscious of in ourselves.[…]The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Humility, Pride

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• ...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Evil, Suffering, Limits

  Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books

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• If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

  Beryl Markham

  Inspired, Hunches, Impulse

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Home, Soul, Identity

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.75, Faber & Faber

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• Cassandra always hid when she read, though she never quite knew why. It was as if she couldn't shake the guilty suspicion that she was being lazy, that surrendering herself so completely to something so enjoyable must surely be wrong. But surrender she did. Let herself drop through the rabbit hole and into a tale of magic and mystery.

  Kate Morton

  Lazy, Magic, Rabbits

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.529, Simon and Schuster

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• I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Summer, Morning, Book

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch!

  Georgette Heyer

  Missing, Heaven, Betrayed

  Georgette Heyer (2011). “Faro's Daughter”, p.202, Random House

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• When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

  Anthony de Mello

  Hate, Guilt, Sin

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.75, Image

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• There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Summer, Winter, Glasses

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Fighting, Alive

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

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• [F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.

  Sherman Alexie

  Arrogance, Tipping, Be Kind

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Oct 22, 2015

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