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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. By Lisa Schroeder Guilt Cat Reminds Stray Scat

Guilt is useless. The world torments us, and we react by tormenting ourselves. I wonder how we can ever have such a low opinion of ourselves that we join in. By Philip K. Dick Guilt Useless World Torments React

Guilt is the currency of the Catholic faith By Luke Gracias Catholic Guilt Faith Currency

Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves. By Iris Murdoch Guilt People Imprisoned

Guilt is the mafia of the mind. By Robert Mandel Guilt Mind Mafia

Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world? By Matthew Gregory Lewis Guilt World Consists Opinion Illjudging

Don't allow guilt to enter your heart, because it's a disease, like cancer, that'll eat away at you until there's nothing left. By Michelle Cohen Corasanti Heart Disease Cancer Left Guilt

I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are. By Kyra Sedgwick Guilt Emotion Fraught Waste Moment

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. By Willard Gaylin Shame Society Potential Guilt Noble

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon. By Jane Porter Rubicon Guilt Spiritual

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt. By Ayn Rand Guilt Worst Accept Unearned

I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily. By Yotam Ottolenghi Guilt Happily

Guilt takes away the energy and strength and reduces a person's productivity By Sunday Adelaja Guilt Productivity Energy Strength Reduces

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. By Coco Chanel Guilt Death Painful Companion

Successful guilt is the bane of society By Publilius Syrus Successful Society Guilt Bane

The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution is the pride of place that has been given to Guilt. By Zeina Guilt Spiritual Mental Outstanding Manifestation

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past. By Gregg Hurwitz Guilt Indulgence Past Entangles

Guilt is motherfucker,... it takes everything motivation, aspiration and soul. (Kill Game 2015) By Deyth Banger Guilt Motherfucker Kill Game Motivation

A healthy dose of guilt never hurt anybody. It's what civilization was built on, guilt. A highly underrated emotion. By Ann Dunham Guilt Healthy Dose Hurt Emotion

Fear and guilt are sisters; By Shirley Jackson Fear Sisters Guilt

Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others. By Pascal Bruckner Guilt Good Thing Shared

Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense. By Bryant Mcgill Guilt Forward Recompense Interfere Desires

Guilt wants to cover all the bases, be everywhere at once, reach into the past to tweak, neaten and repair. Guilt like Tourettic utterance flows uselessly, inelegantly from one helpless human to another, contemptuous of perimeters, doomed to be mistaken or refused on delivery. By Jonathan Lethem Guilt Bases Reach Tweak Neaten

guilt force justification! By Eric Jerome Dickey Guilt Justification Force

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway. By Isabelle Holland Guilt Price Pay Willingly

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise. By Nathaniel Branden Guilt Moral Wrong

Some people have an enormous capacity for feeling guilt, deserved or otherwise. By Scott Hawkins Guilt Deserved People Enormous Capacity

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on. By Ayn Rand Guilt Trade Altruism Stock Inducing

I carry lots of guilt. By Rod Stewart Guilt Carry Lots

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying. By Stefan Molyneux Guilt Paying Feeling Owe Debt

Guilt is intense. Suffocating. A brick, tied quietly around your ankles while you sleep. You never fall slowly into guilt-you wake up with little time to take your last breath before being pulled under. By Andrea Randall Guilt Intense Suffocating Brick Tied

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty. By Joseph Bruchac Guilt Certainty Make Doubt Moment

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt. By Craig Ferguson Guilt Guilty Engender Feelings

Guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. By Dean Koontz Guilt Made Deserved Effort Resist

Guilt has got a power; it never leaves us until it sorts out with the actual pain By D.n. Joshi Guilt Power Pain Leaves Sorts

You cannot live with guilt. By Peter Eisenman Guilt Live

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. By Samuel Johnson Guilt Solicitudes Detestable Betraying Horrors

Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience. By Angelika Rust Guilt Things Makes People Weirdest

Guilt is the teacher, love is the lesson. By Joan Z. Borysenko Guilt Teacher Love Lesson

Guilt is a spiritual pain in the soul that tells us something is evil and needs to be confronted and cleansed. To By John F. Macarthur Jr. Guilt Cleansed Spiritual Pain Soul

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago. By Greg Boyle Guilt Kinda Lent Ago Gave

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse. By Eileen Wilks Guilt Worse Makes Feelings

Guilt often takes the form of anger. By Lisa Kleypas Guilt Anger Form

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. By Kenneth Wapnick Guilt Sum Total Negative Feelings

Neurotic guilt scans the horizons of the past relentlessly seeking out the most deplorable, hideous, and culpable acts which are least consistent with one's self image. This process is similar to the infinite passion of intensified anxiety for seeking the worst conceivable possibilities in order to alert the whole organism to potential danger. By Thomas C. Oden Hideous Neurotic Deplorable Image Seeking

One of the more gratifying things about guilt is that it makes us feel important. By Susan Beth Pfeffer Important Gratifying Things Guilt Makes

The normal background-noise type of guilt that comes from just being alive this far into the twentieth century, By Douglas Adams Century Normal Backgroundnoise Type Guilt

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us. By Ernest Becker Guilt Life Results Unused Unlived

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not. By Gloria Whelan Important Making Guilt Universe Feeling

There is no greater ache than this: guilt and regret in equal measure. By Nathan Hill Guilt Measure Greater Ache Regret

The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc. By Sunday Adelaja Confusion Disappointment Selfconfidence Reduces Fear

Guilt had teeth and it ate folks up if they didn't know how to tame it By Michelle Modesto Guilt Teeth Ate Folks Tame

Guilt is the hyena that'll lunge from behind and hamstring you. By Shannon Hale Guilt Hyena Lunge Hamstring

Guilt can prevent us from setting the boundaries that would be in our best interests, and in other people's best interests. By Melody Beattie Interests Guilt Prevent Setting Boundaries

Sorrow is easier than guilt. By Anne Sexton Sorrow Guilt Easier

Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul By Nouman Ali Khan Allah Guilt Soul Gift Warning

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. By Audre Lorde Response Guilt Anger Lack Actions

Of all the afflictions mortal man must face, it is the torment of guilt that cannot be diminished, neither will it be satisfied. By Randy Mcwilson Face Diminished Satisfied Afflictions Mortal

I always felt guilty. My whole life. By Ingrid Bergman Guilty Felt Life

But guilt isn't smart. It isn't logical. It doesn't only live in the places it belongs. By Ally Carter Smart Guilt Logical Belongs Live

If guilt was an animal then it would be an octopus. All slimy and wriggly with hundreds of arms that wrap around your insides and squeeze them tight. By Annabel Pitcher Octopus Guilt Animal Tight Slimy

Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness. By Billy Graham Guilt Bad God Forgiveness Drive

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places. By Caryl Rivers Guilt Destroy Implanted Tender Age

Indulgence, twin sister of guilt. By Suzanne Curchod Indulgence Twin Guilt Sister

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change directiononly enough to make you useless. By Daniel Nayeri Guilt Feeling Make Useless Change

Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. By Kris Carr Make Guilt Peace Illusion Poisonous

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. By William Cowper Remorse Laid Fatal Egg Pleasure

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility. By Ernest Becker Responsibility Guilt Terrible Burden Freedom

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking ... By Lillian Hellman Guilt Thinking Excuse

If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior. By David D. Burns Terrified Appeared Hungry Lion Suddenly

I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout. By Jo Beverley Zuma Guilt Direction Squint Enjoying

Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World. By Vineet Raj Kapoor Man Guilt World Created Perpetual

If we feel guilt, if we believe it in our own minds, that's what's true to us. By Heather Graham Guilt Minds Feel True

Guilt was its own prison. By Richelle Mead Guilt Prison

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes. By David D. Burns Guilt Mistakes Remedy

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste. By Joy Williams Guilt Taste Days

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief. By Dave Grohl Guilt Cancer Torture Destroy Artist

This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it. By Richelle E. Goodrich Road Feeling Guilt Conscience Calling

It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water. By Marilynne Robinson Landscape Danknesses Water Experience Guilt

The problem with guilt is that it cements you to the past. By Kevin Leman Past Problem Guilt Cements

I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees. By Audre Lorde Guilt Creative Action Choices Trees

Guilt is important. It tells us when we've done wrong. There is no such thing as "wrong." There is only that which does not serve you; does not speak the truth about Who You Are, and Who You Choose to Be. Guilt is the feeling that keeps you stuck in who you are not. By Neale Donald Walsch Important Guilt Wrong Choose Thing

Your own guilt is your own fault. By Katerina Stoykova Klemer Fault Guilt

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't. By Alan Cohen Guilt God Punishing

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. By John Bradshaw Guilt Shame Wrong Mistake Good

You will do something and you will believe in the very contrary. That will create guilt. Everyone feels guilty. Not that everyone is guilty, everyone feels guilty because of this mechanism. By Osho Contrary Guilty Feels Guilt Create

A sense of our inadequacies and failings, a recognition that we could be better people than we usually are, isone of the forces for moral growth and improvement in our society. An appropriate sense of guilt makes people try to be better. But anexcessive sense of guilt, a tendency to blame ourselves for things which are clearly not our fault, robs us of our self-esteem andperhaps of our capacity to grow and to act. By Harold S. Kushner Sense Failings Isone Society People

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. By Dean Koontz Guilt Horse Tireless Sorrow Grief

Guilt is a guide that will lead me whenever I choose to follow. It will raise its righteous banner and take me to the wasteland of my incompetence. Guilt is a voice that will speak whenever i choose to listen. It will mournfully address any subject but one : correcting the mistake. By Hugh Prather Guilt Follow Choose Guide Lead

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that. By Lee Goldberg Guilt Rot Fear Kind Cleaned

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do. By Jeanne Moreau Guilt Feel

With choice comes guilt. No escaping it. By Harlan Coben Guilt Choice Escaping

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future. By Wayne Dyer Lies Guilt Past Worry Future

The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose. By Mother Teresa Lord Purpose Guilt Bring

Guilt is like a sore, endlessly fascinating, and the guilty party feels compelled to examine it and pick at it, so that it never really heals. By Stephen King Guilt Sore Endlessly Fascinating Heals

Guilt loves the passive. By Jonathan Price Guilt Passive Loves

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short. By Robin Gibb Rarely Pleasant Attach Guilt Life

Happiness without Guilt. By Mary M. Forbes Guilt Happiness

Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds, it grows, and when it runs out of time, it begins to gnaw on the guilty. By J.d. Mason Time Follow Rules Guilt Regret

My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent. By William Shakespeare Intent Stronger Guilt Defeats Strong