Quotes tagged ‘Guilt’

“Look son, I know what guilt can do that a person. It eats at you, til, til you don't know who you are.”

— Courtney A. Kemp, Safia M. Dirie, James 'Ghost' St. Patrick, Omari Hardwick, imdb.com

“If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what's the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we die…”

— Jeffrey Dahmer, youtube.com

“These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renounced their own dignity, for they are merciful. As if their own needs and their own distress were not enough, they take upon themselves the distress and humiliat…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible….The theological question does not arise about the orig…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the adva…”

— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com

“Some time this century the day will arrive when the human influence on the climate will overwhelm all natural forces. Then, the insurance industry and the courts will no longer be able to talk of Acts of God, because even the most unreasonable of us could have foreseen the consequences. Instead, the…”

— Tim Flannery, ft.com

“Clay Jensen: Did I kill Hannah Baker? Tony Padilla: No, she took her own life, Clay. That was her choice. But you, me, everyone on these tapes, we all let her down. We didn't let her know that she had another choice. Maybe we could have saved her, maybe not. I think it's impossible to know. Clay Jen…”

— Nathan Louis Jackson, Clay Jensen, Dylan Minnette, imdb.com

“Clay Jensen: I couldn't...I couldn't tell her. I couldn't hold her. I killed Hannah Baker. Like you said. Tony Padilla: I said we all killed Hannah. Clay Jensen: How am I supposed to live with that? Tony Padilla: Any way you can.”

— Diana Son, Clay Jensen, Dylan Minnette, imdb.com

“Moral vigilantism typically has its roots in repression and guilt. This generally manifests itself in low self-esteem and self-loathing. By punishing others, the unsub may also be punishing himself.”

— Bruce Zimmerman, Dr. Spencer Reid, Matthew Gray Gubler, imdb.com

“Gideon: I think you're innocent. Sarah Jean Dawes: We're all guilty of something.”

— Simon Mirren, Jason Gideon, Mandy Patinkin, imdb.com

“I won't say the names of those who are guilty in this. There are too many of them. We are all guilty. We are all guilty of war and death. Always.”

— Tony Grisoni, Paolo Sorrentino, Lenny Belardo, Jude Law, imdb.com

“Come on, man, I know Sam, OK, better than anyone. He's got more of a conscience than I do. I mean, the guy feels guilty surfing the Internet for porn.”

— Raelle Tucker, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com

“You are really gonna stand there and lay the guilt of a dead wife on me?”

— Brett Conrad, Liz Sagal, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com

“Between you and me? This was the very question that consumed Arnold, filled him with guilt, eventually drove him mad. The answer always seemed obvious to me. There is no threshold that makes us greater than the sum of our parts, no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define con…”

— Lisa Joy, Charles Yu, Dr. Robert Ford, Anthony Hopkins, imdb.com

“When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.”

— Gilbert Baker, independent.co.uk

“Families are founded on guilt.”

— Zander Lehmann, imdb.com

“I killed all those people. Something I did went very wrong and everybody died. It's all my fault, it's all my fault, all the houses and the people and the entire town. I feel all of it. I feel pain, I feel guilt. Is this what you wanted from me? You want to see me broken? Because I am broken, there…”

— Beth Szymkowski, Barrett McIntyre, Tyler Chase, imdb.com

“You want me to believe that my dad is responsible for turning people into monsters, right? That he did this to Trent.”

— Kristine Huntley, Barrett McIntyre, Tyler Chase, imdb.com

“Look, we've all done things we shouldn't. Sometimes they land us in detention. Sometimes they should land us in jail.”

— Adam J. Karp, Barrett McIntyre, Tyler Chase, imdb.com

“You see those tears streaming down, you don't know what to do. It was like she was on fire and I was trying to put her out.”

— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com