Jim Carrey

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Canadian Comedian

Brene Brown

I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.

American Author

Gal Gadot

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

Israeli Actress

Gisele Bundchen

The quality of time I get to spend with my family is very important. That way, I feel I am experiencing all the different aspects of my life without guilt.

Brazilian Model

John Lennon

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

English Musician

Audrey Hepburn

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

British Actress

Gian Carlo Menotti

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

Italian Composer

Emma Forrest

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

British Journalist

Robin Gibb

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

French Writer

Guilt often feels heavy, like a psychological burden one carries.

Psychological Weight

Guilt needs personal acknowledgment of wrong to be felt.

Personal Acknowledgment

Guilt triggers a moral self-evaluation and desire to make amends.

Triggered By Conscience

In legal contexts, guilt leads to legal punishment or penalties.

Legal Consequences

Legal guilt must be proven, not just felt or claimed.

Proven in Court

Pleading guilty or not guilty is a formal declaration in court.

Plea Contrasts

Accepting guilt means taking responsibility for an error.

Fault Ownership

Guilt can be divided among several people in a situation.

Not Always Personal

In religious contexts, guilt can be alleviated through spiritual acts.

Spiritual Redemption

Confessing guilt is a common practice in certain religions.

Regular Confession

 isn't actually fun, because it's completely unearned, and the air is filled with guilt, dread, anxiety, self-hatred -- all of those good procrastinator feelings. And the question is, in this situation, with the Monkey behind the wheel, how does the procrastinator ever get himself over here to this blue zone, a less pleasant place, but where really important things happen?

Tim Urban: Inside the...

 but the other is the essential, important act of expressing guilt and remorse for hurting his wife. But the truth is that I have noticed that quite a lot of people who have affairs may feel terribly guilty for hurting their partner, but they don't feel guilty for the experience of the affair itself.

Rethinking infidelity...

 Other methods may be more intense using techniques of coercive persuasion involving guilt, shame, and fear. And in many cases, members may willingly submit out of desire to belong and to attain the promised rewards. The cult environment discourages critical thinking,

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 that appears would have died I don't think there's feel guilt it's great to see her after all this time beginning to think she was a little show up at all you notice sometimes she'll spit it out on the back of the pot is in danger yeah

Feeding a Cute Black...

 So when children lie, their facial expression is typically neutral. However, behind this neutral expression, the child is actually experiencing a lot of emotions, such as fear, guilt, shame and maybe a little bit of liar's delight.

Can you really tell if a...

 death of a pack member the digging of a den and birth and raising a pups we even experienced and saw sympathy guilt sadness and joy new falling snow always put the wolves in a playful mood the

Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...

 White guilt doesn't get anything done, and honestly, I don't feel a lot of guilt. History isn't my fault or yours. What I do feel is a stronger sense of responsibility to do something.

The lie that invented...

 I don't want to harm my government. I want to help my government, but the fact that they are willing to completely ignore due process, they're willing to declare guilt

How we take back the...

 and yet this is what happened I would have been paralyzed by guilt about my privilege except that Kennedy said to me with great compassion

What forgiveness can...

 feeling helpless, grief, panic, insomnia, even guilt around climate change.