G Quotes
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“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Guilt is not an intrinsically helpful emotion for future decision-making. And often the spiral of guilt and shame can lead criminals to remain criminals.
This idea was so intriguing to me, for personal reasons that should arlready be clear, that I later took it on for my undergraduate senior thesis. My paper, which I turned in six weeks early and for which I received an A, was titled "Remorse and Absolution: Peas in a Pod or Dangerous Bunkmates?”
Source: Blood Sugar
“Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.”
“Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.”
“Guilt is one burden that human beings can't bear alone. As soon as a crime is committed, there is a telephone call, or a confession to strangers.”
“Guilt is one of those useless emotions I refuse to indulge.”
“Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.”
“Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
“Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.”
“Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.”
“Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.”
“guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders”
“Guilt is the mafia of the mind.”
Source: Open Heart Therapy
“Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.”
Source: Steel Guitar
“Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.”
“Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.”
Source: A Death at St. Anselm's
“Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.”
“Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.”
“Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.”
“Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson.”
Source: Inner Peace for Busy Women
“Guilt is the thief of life.”
“Guilt is the toothache of the soul.”
Source: Just Went Out for Milk
“Guilt is the uncomfortable certainty that we are not what we could have been.”
“Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.”
“Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.”
Source: A saint indeed: or, The great work of a Christian in keeping the heart in the several conditions of life
“Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.”
“Guilt is what separates humans from animals.”
Source: Every Last One: A Novel
“Guilt isn't in cat vocabulary. They never suffer remorse for eating too much, sleeping too long or hogging the warmest cushion in the house. They welcome every pleasurable moment as it unravels and savour it to the full until a butterfly or falling leaf diverts their attention. They don't waste energy counting the number of calories they've consumed or the hours they've frittered away sunbathing.
Cats don't beat themselves up about not working hard enough. They don't get up and go, they sit down and stay. For them, lethargy is an art form. From their vantage points on top of fences and window ledges, they see the treadmills of human obligations for what they are - a meaningless waste of nap time.”
Source: Cleo: How an Uppity Cat Helped Heal a Family
“Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.”
“Guilt: it comes in so many subtle forms. It's carbon monoxide for the soul.”
Source: Unliving the Dream
“Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.”
Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
“Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.”
“Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.”
Source: Once A Rat
“Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.”
Source: Lean In for Graduates
“Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.”
“Guilt often resembles shadows, playing games in the dark.”
Source: Rage Against the Machine
“Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.”
“Guilt, once it's imprinted deeply on your soul, is almost impossible to get rid of. It becomes as much a part of you as your heart or your reason, and you realize if you let go of it, you will lose a part of yourself along with it.”
Source: The Titanic Sisters
“Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].”
“Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.”
“guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.”
Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir
“Guilt, rage, hatred and fear are the most dangerous chemicals for your system”
“Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.”
“Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won't go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don't need you sitting around here like that.”
Source: I Heart You, You Haunt Me
“Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“Guilt rouged within me like an alligator writhing to drown its victim.”
Source: What Happened in the Marshlands: A One Virtue and a Thousand Crimes Short Story
“Guilt says I've done something wrong; ... shame says there is something wrong with me. Guilt says I've made a mistake; ... shame says I am a mistake. Guilt says what did was not good; ... shame says I am no good.”
Source: Bradshaw On--The Family: A Revolutionary Way of Self-Discovery
“Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.”
“Guilt simply cannot tell me whether I am a good person or a bad person. There is no chart on which I can check the amount of guilt I’m feeling and see how it corresponds to my “goodness” or otherwise. Guilt is a reflection of my thinking about a certain action or behavior I have taken, or not taken, in the past. Guilt does not and cannot change the past. It often doesn’t even stop a person from taking the same action again in similar circumstances.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You