Fake coughing in front of smokers just to make them feel guilty!
Saying sorry doesn’t mean there isn’t guilt and forgiving doesn’t mean the pain is gone
The difference between shame and guilt is the difference between “I am bad” and “I did something bad”. – Brene Brown
The only things you give yourself when you cheat are fear and guilt.
The best way to owe an apology is just to feel real guilt for what you have done, simple but best, real and true.
It has always seemed that a fear of judgement is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity. – Criss Jami
Only a guilty man runs.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. – William Shakespeare
Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.
Worry looks around, fear looks back, faith looks up, guilt looks down, but I look forward.
Guilty people answer questions with a question.
Don’t feel guilty, you should have felt it before.
It’s funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults. – J.B. Albano
Guilt is always hungry, don’t let it consume you. – Terri Guillemets
My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. – Franz Kafka
Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement. – Brene Brown
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others. – Max Frisch
No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it. – Stefan Zweig
Guilt can quickly turn into regret and self- pity. The only way out is through acceptance and forgiveness.
I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did.I don’t. – Veronica Roth
In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent. – Criss Jami
Secret guilt is by silence revealed. – John Dryden
When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. – Anthony de Mello
Binge on life. Purge negativity. Starve guilty feelings.
If you’ve had the right kind of education, it’s amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about. – Pete McCarthy
That instant pain of guilt when you know you have betrayed the person that just trusted his life to you. – Monika Geidane
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. – Veronica Roth
He who helps the guilty, shares the crime. – Publilius Syrus
Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion. – Lynn Crilly
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. – Lillian Hellman
When people know they did you wrong they avoid you.
I say “sorry” a lot. Mostly because I feel like everything is my fault.
People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on. – Eckhart Tolle
Shame is closely related to guilt, but there is a key qualitative difference. No audience is needed for feelings of guilt, no one else need know, for the guilty person is his own judge. Not so for shame. The humiliation of shame requires disapproval or ridicule by others. If no one ever learns of a misdeed there will be no shame, but there still might be guilt. Of course, there may be both. The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it. – Paul Ekman
The difference between guilt and shame is very clear – in theory. We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong. We may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. We may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be. – Lewis B. Smedes
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. – Voltaire
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise. – Nathaniel Branden
Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught. – Elin Hilderbrand
A guilty conscience never feels secure. – Publilius Syrus
Guilt is the one burden human beings can’t bear alone. – Anais Nin
Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn’t. – Alan Cohen
Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past. – Gregg Hurwitz
I can learn to live with guilt. I don’t care about being good. – Holly Black
Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time. – Veronica Roth
The guilty think all talk is of themselves. – Geoffrey Chaucer
Guilt is oftentimes the strongest witness against itself. – Edward Counsel
Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow. – Horace Bushnell
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. – Saint Augustine
Guilt is a rope that wears thin. – Ayn Rand
He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation. – Proverb
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential. – Willard Gaylin
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. – Zig Ziglar
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. – Plautus
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. – Audre Lorde
Guilt is a useless feeling. It’s never enough to make you change direction- – only enough to make you useless. – Daniel Nayeri
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
The guilt you feel finally comes to an end when you fully express how it came into your consciousness. – Luke Garner
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
Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway. – Isabelle Holland
If you need someone to blame, throw a rock in the air, you’ll hit someone guilty.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. – Henry Fielding
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. – Kenneth Wapnick
I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it. – Amit Shah
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. – Tom Hodgkinson
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