Grief has become a sort of all-encompassing buzzword of late, as a way to capture the feeling of living through calamity, but I don’t think we should be so quick to call that feeling one of grieving.
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Quotes tagged ‘Guilt’
All the guilt. It's lazy energy. It doesn't change the past and it doesn't shape the future.
— Ava DuVernay, Robin Swicord, Grace Cuffee, Suzzanne Douglas, imdb.com
Brett Ridgeman: I thought Denise cooked. Anthony Lurasetti: Only at her place. She only shops at organic stores the specialize in assuaging guilt. [Later, offers Ridgeman some mints, and he takes one] Anthony Lurasetti: Take two.
I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's clos…
Benjamin: Mrs. Robinson, I can't do this anymore. Mrs. Robinson: You what? Benjamin: This is all terribly wrong. Mrs. Robinson: Do you find me undesirable? Benjamin: Oh no, Mrs. Robinson. I think, I think you're the most attractive of all my parents' friends. I mean that.
— Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Ben Braddock, Dustin Hoffman, imdb.com
A ghost can be a lot of things. A memory, a daydream, a secret. Grief, anger, guilt. But, in my experience, most times they're just what we want to see.
Guilt! That means love! I had to come home and confess!
Wait a few trillion years, the guilt will fade.
— Andrew Law, Chidi Anagonye, William Jackson Harper, imdb.com
Doing something for your sister out of love is far more important than doing something for me out of guilt.
Guilt is like salt. You put a little on, and it hides all the bitterness.
— Hallie Lambert, Commander Klaes Ashford, David Strathairn, imdb.com
Let me tell you about guilt. It's like crime, it doesn't pay.
— Ann Marcus, Jerry Adelman, Mae Olinski, Salome Jens, imdb.com
If I ever do cheat on you, it's going to be a cash transaction with a guaranteed ejaculation, after which she immediately leaves so I can ponder suicide because of how guilty I feel.
— Sharon Horgan, Rob Delaney, Rob Norris, Rob Delaney, imdb.com
Roxie: This is journalism, you write the truth and let the chips fall where they may. Sabrina: But what if the chips destroy somebody? Roxie: I think I'm beginning to understand who Sabrina Spellman is. You can't handle the truth! Sabrina: I can handle the truth. I just can't handle the guilt.
— Laurie Gelman, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com
The study of sex is the beginning of all life. Yet we sit like prudish cavemen in the dark riddled with shame and guilt.
— Michelle Ashford, Dr. William Masters, Michael Sheen, imdb.com
Dr. Jason Seaver: [after catching his kids having a party] Carol, what was going on in there that you couldn't hear what was happening out here? Carol Seaver: Dad, I don't like what you're implying! [Carol leaves until Mike and Jason see sawdust handprints behind her black skirt] Dr. Jason Seaver: S…
You're talking about Midwestern love. I'm talking about Bronx love. There's a certain amount of guilt that goes with that. My mother wants the people she loves to feel guilty.
— James L. Brooks, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com
You know what family means to me, Lemon? Resentment. Guilt. Anger. Easter egg hunts that turn into knife fights.
Mr. O'Brien: Alright, now I'm gonna ask you some questions. Failure to be truthful, and your responses will be interpreted as an acknowledgment of guilt. Do you understand? Butt-head: Uh…yeah. [detector buzzes 'false'] Uh huh huh. Uh, I mean, no. [detector dings 'true'] Huh huh huh.
— Peter Gaffney, Mike Judge, Butt-head, Mike Judge, imdb.com
Robert: I mean, what if we'll never be able to be happy because our entire relationship was based on lies and betrayals so awful that karmically we're doomed? Sol: Wow, you're more Jewish than I am. Robert: Well, we Catholics know our way around guilt, too.
— Howard J. Morris, Marta Kauffman, Robert Hanson, Martin Sheen, imdb.com
Keith: What's so strange? David: I don't know … the thought that I just got blown in the same bed where my mom used to read me The Runaway Bunny.