Blame Quotes

“We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to look down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

“Narcissists do not tolerate anything that feels like abandonment. The reaction to narcissistic injury is typically narcissistic rage and revenge. Many people who endure a narcissistic breakup will say that they had to start anew— and learned who their real friends were. Because they engage in projection (taking what they are feeling and projecting it onto someone else), and because they do not take responsibility for anything or anyone, they blame. Meet his behavior with dignified silence.”
― Ramani Durvasula, Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Surviving a Relationship with a Narcissist

“She thinks it's my fault. It makes me feel like something hot and heavy's pressing into my head, my neck buckling under the weight of it.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Blaming is a universal human trait that helps people feel good while feeling bad, or as my old teacher Elvin Semrad used to say: 'Hate makes the world go round.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“When it comes to blame... you can't blame a rainbow for the rain.”
― Eric DeSio

“They shift the blame rather than taking the responsibility for their wrongs. Those under witchcraft’s control think they never do anything wrong. When caught they say there is nothing for which to repent. They tell you directly, “I haven’t done anything wrong” or “I did what I thought was right. I don’t have anything to feel sorry about.” They never manifest any true repentance or humility.”
― Jonas Clark, How Witchcraft Spirits Attack

“Not having money isn't a personal failing. Having it is almost always an accident of birth or pure luck. I understand that not being able to pay for things feels like a failure, but it isn't. You haven't done anything wrong.”
― Sam Burns, Fluke and the Faithless Father

“My parents stare straight ahead, their anger and grief palpable enough to taste. I open my mouth to let it all in and swallow it whole, where deep in my belly it turns into blame.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“People needed someone to blame, even if there was no one at fault or if the fault rested solely in their hands.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Grace and Glory

“If you’re looking for someone or something to blame, you’ll never run out of options, as there are infinite errors, inefficiencies, biases, and accidents to account for. It comes down to what you choose to do, rather than what you can prove, and if you choose bitterness, you don’t choose to grow, adapt, learn, or improve.”
― Evan Thomsen, Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want

“Sixty-four has a way of forgetting what twenty-one was like. So we won't talk about blame.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“When no one is to blame, everyone is to blame”
― Philip Anthony Hopkins - Pope Benedict XVI

“Please," Thanh says. Because Giang should be angry. Because Giang should be blaming her. Because--because anger is easier, and compassion hurts so much.”
― Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger

“You can blame other people all you like, but that won't change the fact that the problem is with you, not with them.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Everyone loves to blame everyone. But never themselves. They never want to own their mistakes. Sometimes they don't even bother to explain why they blame. They just want to blame.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“Never let anyone make you feel guilty of something you're not responsible for. Never let them get under your skin.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“If you can stay calm when it’s their fault, you need no relationship advice. You’re great to go.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.”

“Из двух ссорящихся более виноват тот, кто умнее” (in Russian)”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Accept the blame and win the game

We will find scores of opportunities to blame people and circumstances, but the one who wins is the one who accepts the blame and finds a solution to the problem. Most will either say the problem doesn't exist or blame others for it.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Never in our history was we able to blame someone else for our troubles.”
― Will Rogers

“How typical,' he said. 'First the people of Swat fall under the spell of the Taliban, then they are killed by the Taliban, and now they are blamed for the Taliban!”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“When you break the news of death, you become Death, and there’s always a sickle somewhere.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“You blame others to save attacking yourself. Neither is necessary. You are not as you think and nor is anyone else.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“How easily one can blame others for the wrong they did. People should stop doing that.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“People blame more when they feel attacked, so instead of condemning their feelings, be open to them. Listen, understand, and then stay quiet.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“I think it’s very easy to victim blame. One thing we don’t understand is blaming them only makes them doubt on everything else they do.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“It’s easy to blame someone else for all the misfortunes of your life. It may look even satisfying for a moment but you know in your gut that blaming never solves problem. And it sure as hell never make anyone’s life better.”
― Sarvesh Jain

“The three children of fear and confusion - Cowardice, Corruption and Colonisation - had arrived.
Suddenly I did not know what I knew or who I knew.With the exception of my mother, my own
sisters and brothers, and my own children, I did not know anyone at this time.

Some neighbours sprouted horns that could gore me. Colleagues I had known and trusted grew tails. And friends had the Devil's own fire roaring, ready to fry me to brittle bone.
The pressure was fierce for people, everybody, to be involved in what was happening. But not all did so out of conviction.”
― Sindiwe Magona, Forced to Grow

“90 Percent of people who are blamed. They know very well what they did, but they don't know that what they did is wrong, because they were never confronted.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“I blamed myself for everything, making myself the reason for all the troubles. It is my lifestyle: taking the blame onto myself to make it easier for others.”
― Lala Agni, I JUST WANT YOU TO REMEMBER: A Story About The Eternal Love Of Twin Flames And So Much More