G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about.”
Source: Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
“Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.”
Source: The Sea, The Sea
“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”
Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono
“Guilt-free friendship says that any time you get back to me is a good time. Guilt-free friendship says that I will always assume the best about your motivations. Guilt-free friendship says that I won't keep score when it comes to emails answered or phone calls returned. Guilt-free friendship focuses on the friendship and ditches the guilt. Guilt-free friendship loves any chance and any slice of time to catch up; it isn't about criticizing how much or how frequently that happens. Instead, guilt-free friendship is generous and forgiving and creates easy space for reconnecting because it doesn't have any conditions for how or when or how often that happens.”
Source: Never Unfriended: The Secret to Finding and Keeping Lasting Friendships
“Guilt gripped her--she was the person who determined Reina's salary, which in turn determined these conditions. But she remembered that Reina sent the bulk of her money back home to her parents. She would be able to afford a better place otherwise, surely. It was a kind of sacrifice that Nakia never had cause to make. She hoped she would be willing if circumstances called for it. Why was life so hard for some people? A question people called you stupid for asking, yet no one could give you a straightforward explanation.”
Source: The Wilderness
“Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.”
Source: The Rambler
“Guilt has to fall somewhere when logic fails.”
Source: Good Girl, Bad Girl
“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.”
“Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.”
Source: More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism
“Guilt, in principle, is simply not among the things baby humans can inherit. However, white settler colonial guilt is a horse of a different color.”
Source: Stones of Contention
“Guilt in the heart creates chaos in the head.”
“Guilt is a control program that causes laziness, postponement, and reincarnation. Sin is a lie. The idea that a bleeding man can take away your bad behavior is a massive lie that NEEDS TO STOP.
Own your behavior. Grow up. Apologize. Apologizing is a form of dissolving “sin” and an initiation into adulthood. This is emotional intelligence.”
“Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily”
Source: The View from Here
“Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.”
“Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul”
“Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of all reason it will stay by your side, and even when you tell it, "I am moving on now," it will say, "I shall never leave you; never." If only I could find a lover as faithful as guilt.”
“Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.”
“Guilt is a lazy feeling that takes no action; the wings of integrity are the only thing that sets it free.”
“guilt is a pollutant and we don't need any more of it in the world.”
Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually
“Guilt is a rope that wears thin.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Guilt is a strong motivator, sometimes even stronger than love.”
Source: Reckless
“Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.”
“Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.”
“Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.”
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel
“Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.”
Source: You Can Heal Your Life
“Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.”
Source: Another Faust
“Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others.”
“Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.”
“Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.”
Source: Openly Straight
“Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.”
Source: How to be Free
“Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could choose to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount.”
Source: How to be Free
“Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.”
“Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.”
“Guilt is always jealous”
Source: A complete collection of English proverbs: also, the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages
“Guilt is an outward expression of self degradation. It is acceptance of one’s culpability, indiscretion, liability, sin, dereliction, and harm without resolving the crime, violation, or wrong. Guilt desires to remain hidden, hence, the paying for confessions to alleviate responsibility. Where shame separates you from social and cultural obedience, guilt brings you closer to the deceiver such as religion. Guilt is dancing with the devil and calling yourself good.”
“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.”
Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't
“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.”
Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't
“Guilt is born in shame.
Error is born in speculation.
Chaos is born in confusion.
Anger is born in bitterness.
Wrath is born in rage.
Fear is born in mistrust.
Violence is born in intolerance.
Evil is born in ignorance.
Death is born in sin.
Want is born in need.
Mercy is born in compassion.
Peace is born in contentment.
Hope is born in confidence.
Meekness is born in strength.
Patience is born in long-suffering.
Integrity is born in goodness.
Decency is born in dignity.
Joy is born in love.
Fate is born in time.
Chance is born in fate.
Motion is born in rest.
Force is born in acceleration.
Distance is born in separation.
Curiosity is born in observation.
Consciousness is born in awareness.
Perception is born in understanding.
Reason is born in clarity.
Matter is born in space.
Light is born in darkness.
Sound is born in silence.
Wind is born in stillness.
Heat is born in motion.
Nature is born in chaos.
Harmony is born in confusion.
Energy is born in God.
Experience is born in time.”
“Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.”
“Guilt is easier to drown in than any sorrow. pg. 245”
Source: No Two Persons
“Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes
“Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.”
“Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.”
“Guilt is imperative if we are to create and sustain a decent code of ethics and a sound moral compass. Guilt can help us to listen to our conscience, enhance empathy, and therefore have fulfilling relationships. Without guilt, we would live in an extremely dark world. However, misplaced guilt often triggers us to be over-apologetic and people-please. Many people repeat the word ‘sorry’ without needing to, while still others feel guilty for their very own existence. Emotionally wounded, shame-based people often feel that they are constantly ‘getting in the way’. This stems from a sense of feeling unlovable. To ask for one’s own needs to be met often results in a feeling of guilt. I call this misplaced guilt. Similarly, a person may feel guilty even if they have been abused or harmed by others. Misplaced guilt or excessive guilt stifles people’s chances to live happily and peacefully.”
Source: Super Self Care: How to Find Lasting Freedom from Addiction, Toxic Relationships and Dysfunctional Lifestyles
“Guilt is imposed by others on you. It is a strategy of the priests to exploit. It is a conspiracy between the priest and the politician to keep humanity in deep slavery forever. They create guilt in you, they create great fear of sin. They condemn you, they make you afraid, they poison your very roots with the idea of guilt. They destroy all possibilities of laughter, joy, celebration. Their condemnation is such that to laugh seems to be a sin, to be joyous means you are worldly.”
“Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.”
“Guilt is like any other energy: you can't accumulate it or keep it because it makes you sick and disrupts the system you live in - you have to let it go. Face the truth, make amends and let it go.”
Source: Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
“Guilt is not a condemntion. It’s a red flag that we are letting old wounds guide us when we would be better served trusting our inner wisdom.”
Source: Light in the Shadows
“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches