Blame Quotes

“Morals create a labyrinth of rules geared toward blaming the victim”
― Maria Adelmann, How to Be Eaten

“The tyrants die, sooner or later, and the sands of time cover up their graves, but not their worst deeds, which often grow through like some rotten seeds of Evil, never to be eradicated, again and again. That means, sadly, that the tyrants and greatest evil-makes are indeed immortal, anyway much more immortal than their guiltless victims.”
― Raphael Canossa, Love and Die Twice: Between Passion and Destiny

“You can't take credit for sobering him up, because he did that. And if he starts drinking again, you can't take the blame, because he'd do that, too.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“Hope you’re not prone to nose bleeds. The course sits at the highest elevation in Texas. It’s flat as a pancake, but one day a guy in the group ahead of us had his superglued toupee ripped right off his head. Rumor was it rode the Rio Grande River all the way into Mexico,” Patrick said with a wink and a nod.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Summer Mackie didn’t fall. She was pushed. I hollered . . . then poof, gone.”
"By whom?” asked Conner.
            "There were only three of them on the ledge. I gotta go. . . .”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“A free man, when he fails, blames nobody.”
― Joseph Brodsky

“I guess it’s too much to ask for you to understand what I’m going through, Matt. What part of my daughter killing our son don’t you get?”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Sally could not dismiss the feeling that she and the strange man on the bus shared the same baggage, both losing their footing—both with fists clenched against the world.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Well, well, well, look who’s here riding solo.”
Victor would make Al Pacino seem gigantic,” said Conner.
You two can look eye to eye my friend.”
God only lets things grow until they’re perfect—some of us didn’t take as long as others. The ladies call us fun-sized.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“We wake up, breathe, live life often against our wishes and our better judgement. We console ourselves by telling ourselves this is no fault of our own but that doesn’t take away the reality of the pain, the streaming dreams, the utter shock of life, the shattered pieces of survival.”
― Scott C. Holstad, Cells

“Shame, blame and embarrassment are like high LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol. They can slowly accumulate in the body's arteries, negatively clogging the the passages through which positive information flows.”
― Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live

“Again, I’m Irish . . . I speak in essays . . . but I’ll give it my best shot.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Starla and Conner ambled to his car, knowing each deliberate footstep meant the road to parting was nearer. He leaned his back against the door pulling her within inches of his face, their personal space evaporating like dew steeped in the warmth of the morning sun. She tilted her head sideways, searching his eyes with hers. Straightening the collar of his shirt she said, “If I’m too bold forgive me, but you fill a void in my life . . . you’re like finding that stray earring I’ve been trying to find for ages and now that I have, it scares me.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“That’s a medley of promise, fairy tales, and magic bullets all welded together in a chorus of a cloud nine song.”
― JoDee Neathery, A Kind of Hush

“Wise acceptance does not mean we like the situation; it means we have stopped denying it, have stopped being victims of it, have stopped blaming others for it, and are now prepared to improve it.”
― John Bruna

“Time spent suffering didn't teach me anything I wanted to learn. But perhaps as time passes, it's possible to learn not to blame yourself. Life is hard enough.”
― Karen Havelin, Please Read This Leaflet Carefully: Keep This Leaflet. You May Need to Read It Again.

“Gandalf answered angrily: "I brought him, and I don't bring things that are of no use. Either you help me to look for him, or I go and leave you here to get out of the mess as best you can yourselves. If we can only find him again, you will thank me before all is over. Whatever did you want to go and drop him for Dori?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“People do profoundly stupid things. When they have to pay the price, and there’s always a price, they blame God, their parents, the universe and everything under the sun except themselves.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“It no longer seemed to me important that I had been duped. I was so tired of not apportioning blame that I could no longer see where it was due.”
― Anita Brookner, Look at Me

“We can push a part of ourselves onto another person because we don’t feel comfortable with it. People do that all the time. They don’t know what to do with some aspect of themselves, so they put it in another person and then end up fighting with the person. They are fighting with themselves.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“... you're more likely to get blamed for it if you don't make an appearance. It's easy to villainize a shadow...”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“Blaming others is the fastest and easiest way of self-destruction”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Releasing guilt and blame gives us back the bandwidth and energy to focus on things we actually can change, instead of expending energy on the things we can’t.”
― Julia A. Nicholson, Move Forward Stronger: A Dynamic Framework to Process Change, Loss, and Grief

“The mother who abandoned her child or took her own life leaves a daughter with the most direct access route to anger--she left me--but even the mother who falls ill and dies can be an object of blame.”
― Hope Edelman, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

“People are naturally inclined to be far more attuned to the blame game of social bargaining than they are to the nuances and the balance of the facts, whether historical or contemporary.”
― Azar Gat, Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

“After the discovery of my girlfriend’s secret affairs, I knew I was not to blame as I also discovered the secret affairs she had engaged in with her previous long term relationship!”
― Steven Magee

“Corrupt police officers? You can blame internal affairs.”
― Steven Magee

“God always likes to look at your good deeds, and the disgraced one will discard your good deeds and trying to find a mistake to blame you.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Let people misjudge you – condemn you, even,’ she says for Goeido as he speaks again. ‘Smile at them, then carry on with your life. Their faults weaken only them.”
― Michael Grothaus, Beautiful Shining People

“People, especially when they band together, he told Goeido, can be cruel and judgmental and condemn a person without knowing them, simply because they are scared and angry and looking for someone to blame for the unfairness of life. But those people are to be pitied, he said, not have their outrage acted upon.”
― Michael Grothaus, Beautiful Shining People