Blame Quotes

“The day we finally hold ourselves accountable, rather than putting the blame on others, and come clean about our responsibilities, we unfetter ourselves from ravaging frustrations and fretting crankiness. ("The unbearable heaviness of being" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.”
― Euripides, Electra

“Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Blame is something that is shared and denied in equal measures.”
― Patrick Ness, Release

“Whether we forget something we are not proud of, or embellish it, or blame somebody else, we want to save face by not owning up to shortcomings.”
― Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization

“You do not blame your shadow for the shape of your body: Just the same: Do not blame others for the shape of your experience.”
― Gillian Duce, Demons And Dangers: Magic And Mayhem - Book 4

“NO
IT'S NO ONE'S FAULT
Back then, what I really resented was my own powerless self. my tiny little self. and my tiny little heart.
too small to hold all that emotion, so it had to shift the blame onto someone else.
but now I'm grown. I'VE COME FOR YOU. I'LL HOLD IT ALL.
Kuki Urie”
― Sui Ishida

“That drew a laugh from Jessamy, but he said, after a moment: “You had better flay me. It was my fault—all my fault!”

“I was wondering how long it would be before you contrived to convince yourself that you were to blame,” said Alverstoke caustically. “I haven’t the slightest wish to know how you arrived at such an addlebrained conclusion, so don’t put yourself to the trouble of telling me!”
― Georgette Heyer, Frederica

“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In order to apologize—really apologize, and not just utter some words—for something one has done or failed to do, one has not only to acknowledge responsibility for but express sincere sorrow and regret over this action or inaction. One can apologize only for acts for which one has no excuse. If one has an excuse, there is nothing to apologize for, even if there is something to feel sorry about ('I'm sorry that you are hurt,' even 'I'm sorry that my actions hurt you,' is quite different from 'I'm sorry that I hurt you'). A genuine apology thus involves a rather raw exposure of the apologizer: Having done the deed, one now not only reiterates having done it, but strips away any suggestion that there are extenuating circumstances that could relieve one of blame; it must be clear that he regrets what he has done and feels sorrow over what he was wrought. He doesn't just wish things were otherwise; he fully acknowledges his role in bringing them to this sorry state.”
― Elizabeth V. Spelman, Repair: The Impulse to Restore in a Fragile World

“The word conscience covers as a matter of fact several different feelings; the simplest of these is the fear of being found out. You, reader, have, I am sure, lived a completely blameless life, but if you will ask some one who has at some time acted in a manner for which he would be punished if it became known, you will find that when discovery seemed imminent, the person in question repented of his crime.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Has it not ‘dawned’ on us that many of the things that we incessantly blame others for are actually things that our actions originally set in motion? Or, are we too weak to experience a ‘dawning’ of that sort?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every time you shift a blame on what you could have taken responsibility for, you deny yourself an opportunity to learn and grow.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t put me any place else.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Refuse to blame yourself for not being 'good enough”
― John Mark Green

“Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment,
but not for long, because Blame can’t live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can’t live with Blame.”
― Scott Stabile

“Already they're the objects of narrow sideways looks, as if they had something to do with it; already they've assumed the cornered, angry air of the consciously innocent. I'm sure they're blameless, but they're alive, and whoever's left alive gets blamed. That's the rule in things like this. Unfair, but there it is.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Don't put blame on anything, put the blame on yourself for perceiving that "thing" as something to blame in the first place.”
― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA

“As a solid mass of rock
Is not moved by the wind,
So a sage is unmoved
By praise or blame.”
― Anonymous, The Dhammapada

“Don't let this consume you. Try not to blame me. Don't live in hate. Or grief. Just live.”
― Jackson Lanzing, Joyride Vol. 2

“We always have to blame our failures on somebody else, and dictatorships always need an external enemy to bind their followers together. As the man said, for every complex problem there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“I kept that thought in the background for a long time. It sort of just lingered there. The kind of thought that can apply to other situations, too. Like when you’re going to cheat on somebody. You know something’s going to happen and you can’t say it out loud. But you know that if you follow a certain line, it’ll come true and you’ll be free of most culpability in making it happen.”
― Caspar Vega, The Young Men in Pain Omnibus

“Always searching somebody to blame.”
― Deyth Banger

“Exploring what can be done and what is possible is perhaps more relevant that knowing what has been done”
― Alan B Jones

“Knowing there's a reason for what happens also saves us from being filled with blame.”
― Mira Kirshenbaum, Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives

“Without words like blame, victim, and fault, I do believe about 50% of the unhappiness in the world would be cured.”
― Mike Dooley

“Placing blame is just the human way. What’s done is done.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel