I guess secrets are part of the fabric of everybody’s lives. I mean everybody’s lives, and guilt is part of the fabric of everybody’s lives. – Emily Mortimer
I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings. – Philip Yancey
Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he’s got that guilt to live with. – Donald Pleasence
I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so – I think we’ve made some big mistakes globally with how we’re developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films. – Maggie Grace
What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief. – Dave Grohl
It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases. – Friedrich Schiller
Too often the word ‘prayer’ induces guilt because we don’t do enough of it. After all, I’ve never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat. – Mark Batterson
I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I’m a pretty good guy. – Marcus Brigstocke
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
I’ve got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it’s a hell of a job distinguishing which is which. – Kevin Kline
There are times when you need to pitch a fit and other times when you need to apply Catholic guilt, and it’s just figuring out which is the most appropriate approach and then implementing it. – Lisa Murkowski
If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt. – Keira Knightley
Denial, panic, threats, anger – those are very human responses to feeling guilt. – Joshua Oppenheimer
You know, the genders are different in how they approach things, and so I really think that women put a lot more guilt on themselves than need be. – Jane Curtin
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. – Lorna Luft
Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people’s best interests. – Melody Beattie
I don’t do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it’s probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout. – Jo Beverley
I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn’t like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it. – Maeve Binchy
The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. – Kenneth L. Pike
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. – Lawrence Durrell
