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Guilt Quotes

"Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up."

Marge Kennedy, American Author

Guilt, May, Voice

"It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

"Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

Guilt, Law, State

"With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here."

Heather Locklear, American Actress

"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."

Isabelle Holland, Swiss Writer

"I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."

Jude Law, British Actor

Guilt, Jealousy, Regret

"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

Saint Aurelius Augustine, Roman Theologian

"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."

Ovid, Roman Poet

"What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy."

Dennis Miller, American Comedian

"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt."

Titus Maccius Plautus, Roman Poet

Guilt, Man, Mind, Nothing

"I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check."

Edward Burns, American Actor

Guilt, Irish, Reality

"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt."

Edna O'Brien, Irish Novelist

"Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Guilt, Self, Punishment, Growth

"Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it."

Andy Dick, American Actor

"How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt."

Robert Blair, American Poet

"There is no such thing as collective guilt."

Kurt Waldheim, Austrian Politician

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