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Feel Guilty Quotes

Don't feel guilty for a crime you have not committed commit it and be guilt free
- Amit Abraham

Did you feel guilty cursing God--you, of all people?'
No,' he said. 'Because even in doing so, I was recognizing there was a greater power than me.'
He paused.
And that is how I began to heal.
- Mitch Albom

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
- Woody Allen

I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
- Woody Allen

I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.
- Simon Armitage

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.
- Kate Atkinson

Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English.
- David Attenborough

And being that happy makes me feel guilty. Because I shouldn't be. Not while my mum is feeling the way she is. How I can dare to be happy is beyond me, and I hate my guts for it.
- Melina Marchetta

But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.
- John Steinbeck

No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time.
But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed,
then it might be a good chance for you...
to be a better man.
- Toba Beta

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.
- Holly Black

The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.
- Jerry Bridges

never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it
- Kevin Brooks

She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.
- Nicholas Sparks

there was something about
that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had no feeling for the
things so many others
needed.
it let me alone.
- Charles Bukowski

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
- Sitting Bull

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
- Jim Carrey

You're living off your parent's money? At your age?" Oh no she didn't. I took another drink and then smiled at her in warning as if to say, 'don't play this game with me, sweetheart, you won't win.'
She didn't heed the warning. "So they pay for everything? Doesn't that make you feel guilty?"
Every fucking day. "Was it your money that bought those Louboutin's... or Braden's?
- Samantha Young

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.
- Edwin Louis Cole

Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.
- Chris Colfer

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
- Glen Cook

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.
- Jim Dale

It's nice to have people who will feel guilty for you.
- John Green

I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty.
- Catherine Deneuve

Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the very tradition to which they are so loyalthe "eternal" tradition introduced to them in their youthis in fact the evolved product of many adjustments firmly but delicately made by earlier lovers of the same tradition.
- Daniel Dennett

It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do.
- Charles Eames

When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire.
- Tyler Edwards

Turn up your radio. Watch lots of telly and eat loads of choc. Feel guilty. Stay up all night. Learn everything in six hours that has taken you two years to compile. That's how I did it.
- Dawn French

Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
- Ina Garten

We can't be friends. That never works. I'd have to be all careful and brave and pathetic, you'd feel guilty all the time and you'd start being nice in weird fake ways to make up for it.' She was starting to cry, but she felt free, she felt relieved as you can only feel when you have wrecked yourself on the rocks and don't have to worry about navigating anymore.
- Susan Gilbert Collins

I know I'm doing something wrong and I feel guilty but neither of those things matter enough to make me stop
- Abbi Glines

I'm sorry I have issues with my boyfriend doing other men. I'm sorry I have issues with me doing other men. Why was I always being made to feel guilty because I wasn't having sex with more people? Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?
- Laurell K Hamilton

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this.
- Alice Hoffman

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.
- Elizabeth Jane Howard

Between work and the kids, I never see anyone anymore. I mean, when I first met with ABC last spring, and they asked me what I'd been doing lately, I said: 'Gee, I have two kids. I'm usually covered with food, wrinkled and feel guilty all the time.
- Felicity Huffman

Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest.-Lo-The Wild Hunt
- Ashley Jeffery

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
- Sue Johanson

Under these circumstances, silence among such a large group of people is an uncomfortable thing to experience. Guilt spreads around even to those who have nothing to feel guilty about. Many held their breath. Or, as I heard later, many did what me and my mum did and closed their eyes. We closed our eyes in a bid to remove ourselves.
- Lloyd Jones

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
- Erica Jong

Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture...Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
- Erica Jong

I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
- Jack Kerouac

If Olivia wanted me to feel guilty, mission accomplished!
- M Leighton

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
- C S Lewis

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.
- Damian Lewis

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
- Julia Louisdreyfus

Because I'd rather feel guilty for the rest of my life then for her to have felt a second's fear.
- Rosamund Lupton

Women.... They insist on being loving and kind and caring, and why do they do that? To make a man feel guilty, that's why. And then they lure innocent men who are busy with important scientific research into impregnating them, and then said busy men end up caring about said spawn. And these ladies smell good, too. Deliberately. The wenches.
- Katie Macalister

When I get honest, I admit I am a bundle of paradoxes. I believe and I doubt, I hope and get discouraged, I love and I hate, I feel bad about feeling good, I feel guilty about not feeling guilty. I am trusting and suspicious. I am honest and I still play games. Aristotle said I am a rational animal; I say I am an angel with an incredible capacity for beer.
- Brennan Manning

You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires.
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- Stephenie Meyer

Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may feel guilty and selfish at first for guarding your down- time, but you'll soon find that you are a much nicer, more present, more productive person in each instance you do choose to say yes.
- Holly Mosier

I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness, dead people need us to rememer them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I am sorry", until its as meaningless as air.
- Audrey Niffenegger

I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.
- Audrey Niffenegger

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
- Camille Paglia

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people behave. If you ask me, being cultured and civilized is not about everyone being free and equal; it's about everyone being refined enough to act as if they were. Then no one has to feel guilty.
- Orhan Pamuk

I'm not going to feel guilty for wanting the things that everyone wants.
- Carolyn Parkhurst

I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.
- Jacques Pepin

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.
- Amy Poehler

What work do I have to do then?" said Will, but went on at once, "No, on second thought, don't tell me. I shall decide what I do. If you say my work is fighting, or healing, or exploring, or whatever you might say, I'll always be thinking about it. And if I do end up doing that, I'll be resentful because it'll feel as if I didn't have a choice, and if I don't do it, I'll feel guilty because I should. Whatever I do, I will choose it, no one else.
- Philip Pullman

I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!
- Paula Radcliffe

We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
- Harold Ramis

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.
- Ayn Rand

Shoot. I feel guilty for peeing. That first bottle of wine alone was almost two hundred dollars.
- Tina Reber

I feel guilty looking at those "People of Walmart" photos you see on the Internet. It's not cool to make fun of pitiful people. You really think anyone who wasn't batshit crazy would walk out of the house in a camouflage mankini and a Confederate flag ball cap to go buy some new furnace filters? No, he's cray-cray.
- Celia Rivenbark

...if something hurts me, the hurts I suffered back then come back to me, and when I feel guilty, the feelings of guilt return; if I yearn for something today, or feel homesick, I feel the yearnings and homesickness from back then. The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fully formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive.
- Bernhard Schlink

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
- Jaclyn Smith

People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.
- Hal Sparks

Or maybe, he thought, returning to the boxes, it was part of being Catholic--you were made to feel guilty about everything
- Elizabeth Strout

Many working mothers feel guilty about not being at home. And when they are there, they wish it could be perfect. This pressure to make every minute happy puts working parents in a bind when it comes to setting limits and modifying behavior.
- Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, "Do you really want to eat those carbs?" It was like, "Thanks a lot!"
- Ashley Tisdale

My mother is now in the hospital 60 miles away, where they are treating her pneumonia. I refuse to feel guilty. Guilt is a destructive emotion and doesn't fit in with my Life Plan.
- Sue Townsend

I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
- Jeff Tweedy

I know what it's like to be manipulated, Aya-la. And I know what it's like to be in danger. While your city was building you mansions to live in, my friends and I have been protecting this planet. We've spilled more blood than you have flowing in your veins. So don't try to make me feel guilty!
-Tally Youngblood, Extras
- Scott Westerfeld

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