Blame Quotes

“Instead of blaming yourself for what others think, you should focus on what truly matters to you and how minding your own business helps you create your best self.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“Deserve was such a strange word, throwing out both blame and accolades with equal mercilessness. Society’s skewed scale for assigning a value to human beings. How many times had he been judged and found lacking? Was there ever a way to measure what anyone deserved? Or was it just another way to pretend that the randomness of the universe made sense?”
― Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“More often than not, to blame someone else is to play ‘hot potato’ with something that’s neither hot nor a potato.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Gabriela's pupils were immoveable tempests, dark tunnels spiraling down into invisibility, terrifying the mother. They sat still amongst the greenish-brown puddle and attacked Estefania in total muteness.”
― Laura Gentile, Within Paravent Walls

“If women are to achieve sexual dominance it may be that female abusers are even more skilful than their male counterparts. It might also mean that female intimate abusers use different tactics and have different goals than the male abuser. What I have found is that the effect of female intimate abuse is different and that male victims and survivors seem to need a different response. Male victims need safety and options but they are denied these supports as the community treats male victims with an even greater degree of blame than it applies to female victims.”
― Don Hennessy, How He Gets Into Her Head: The Mind of the Male Intimate Abuser

“Humans have free will but God is always a handy one to blame because He is the one who sits on the throne. He is the one who allows or does not allow things to happen. He will gladly take the blame because He knows that someday you will understand and forgive everything.”
― Kate McGahan, Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief

“They will say your doubts shed innocent blood. But I say - what's blood for, if not for shedding?”
― Clive Barker, The Forbidden

“What’s a mother for but to be blamed?”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“One does not have to hit you to abuse you. They can degrade, humiliate, blame, curse, manipulate and try to control you. It still is violence.”
― Nitya Prakash

“We are the Cassandras of our world, gifted with highly sensitive bodies that are feeling what the System would have us ignore. We have been taught to distrust our own body systems, to distrust our inner knowing, to silence ourselves, to hand over their care and definition to the experts. We have grown up seeing the women around us consistently disempowered, sick in body, or soul, heart or mind. Having their suffering dismissed, in big ways and small. Having their physical and emotional needs unrecognised and unmet for generations. We have grown up feeling alienated in our bodies, embarrassed or ashamed of them: not at home in our physical selves.
We have internalised the message that there’s something wrong with us, rather than there is something wrong. And so we have silenced ourselves, blamed ourselves, punished ourselves.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Medicine Woman: Reclaiming the Soul of Healing

“Oh, all right, perhaps it wasn't all your fault, I was just doomed from the start.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Instead of pointing fingers at ‘criminals’ like Gun wielding terrorists, cold-blooded murders, gruesome rapists, juvenile delinquents (by the way they are mere humans akin to you and me!)…let’s see where we stand with regard to the question of our own moral standing before the moral law giver”
― Royal Raj S

“To blame my failures on the lack of resources is less about the lack of resources and more about my unwillingness to access those resources.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Solutions are not found by pointing fingers they are reached by extending hands.”
― Aysha Taryam

“She looks at me
and blames me
for all of the ways
that you don't love her.”
― Olivia Barnes, Bramble

“Dig deep, past the pain of knowing you failed or that you could have done things differently and past the temptation to self-loathe. Live in the pain of the mistake, notice your ego's attempt to protect you by justifying your mistake or blaming another for their part in a situation. We must go deeper into ourselves, to tap into the wisdom that resides underneath our mistakes.”
― Jenn Bruer, Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing

“It was the moments; the precious moments. The moments when no one was complaining, blaming, thinking about past hurts or the fear of future ones. It was those moments of simply being present to another person. Those moments of being grateful. Gratitude for another being; gratitude for life. Those moments made their relationship.”
― Donna Goddard

“God created people, alright? Even if you don’t believe in God, just assume that God created people. Alright. And then the people created a bunch of stuff. Mostly, the stuff was crap. And God was all like, “Wait, what are you doing with all that crap?” And the people immediately got all defensive, like “What? Nothing. It’s our stuff. Why do you care?” And God was trying to be diplomatic and pointed and said, “Alright, but where are you going with that thing? It doesn’t look safe.” And the people rolled their eyes and said, “We’re going out. Who are you, the cops?” And God was all, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to, but are you really? That doesn’t look like such a good idea.” And the people were all, “Stop being so overprotective, we’re not children. You created us like fifteen minutes ago.” And God was all, “Fine. Fine. Alright. Alright.” And then the people took all their stuff, mostly crap into the world. And the world, a lot of bad stuff happened to it to be honest. And then God mumbled, “Told you.” But did the people then stop and say, “Oops. Our bad.” No. The people immediately turned to God and looked incredibly upset and cried, “Why didn’t you stop us? You could have stopped us. Now this is your fault!” Get it? Because that’s our nature, us humans.”
― Fredrik Backman

“We can't blame people for not knowing what they don't know.”
― Akiroq Brost

“We blame heart for the misdeeds our mind plotted”
― Mustafa Khan

“When you play the cards with real love; you defeat yourself. You cannot blame anyone else for that. You cannot hide your love from a beloved if love exists; it brightens all sides; nowhere is the darkness. It is a light of true love.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“When an orange tastes like an onion, the knife takes the blame.
But it is the one who handed us the knife that should be questioned.”
― Paul Bamikole

“You can't blame yourself for being, Kirby.(...) You can't blame a tree for reaching for the sun or another for rotting from within. We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.”
― Nora Roberts, The Art of Deception

“As people said, when you point your finger, there's still three pointing back at you.
{Unsure of original source}”
― Jaime Jo Wright, The Curse of Misty Wayfair

“work toward curing yourself of the need to blame. Move beyond thinking about fault and blame.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“I think that the most politically correct finger-pointing that anyone can ever do is to finger-point while standing in front of a really big mirror.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Before modern medicine, one of the worst imaginable skin diseases was syphilis ... the microbe that caused this disgusting sight and unbearable pain had different names in different places. In Russia it was called the Polish disease. In Poland it was the German disease; in Germany, the French disease; and in France, the Italian disease. The Italians blamed back, calling it the French disease.
The instinct to find a scapegoat is so core to human nature that it's hard to imagine the Swedish people calling the open sores the Swedish disease, or the Russians calling it the Russian disease. That's not how people work. We need someone to blame and if a single foreigner came here with the disease, then we would happily blame the whole country. No further investigation needed.”
― Hans Rosling, Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“While many blame Boeing for the fatal 737 Max crashes, it was an expected outcome of government deregulation.”
― Steven Magee

“It is true that my shunning was a message from our community to my mother. Her rejection of me was a measure of the humiliation she felt. She believed until her death that I caused her to lose her friends and her stature in the town.”
― Meredith Hall, Without a Map

“It wasn’t me,” I said. “I don’t know what happened.” If you don’t know what happened, how do you know it wasn’t you?”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater