(268 quotes found)
“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution”
Oscar Wilde
“The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.”
Ayn Rand
“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves -- at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others -- at what they did or did not do.”
Peter McWilliams
“I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.”
Angelina Jolie
“The guilty think all talk is of themselves”
Geoffrey Chaucer
“To take upon oneself not punishment, but guilt - that alone would be godlike”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.”
Cathy Guisewite
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.”
Jane Austen
“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.”
Susan Sontag
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.”
Victor Hugo