Quotes About Guilt

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make?

I read Butterfly's Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

She felt pained, desolate, guilty, bewildered—she did not know quite what word to put to her feelings except that they were hard to bear and harder to hide.

I am the one who has done wrong. Always. All my life, it seems. Bringing misery to everyone I have ever loved.

I did nothing to defend my own child, and now I fear that she will never recover.

For there is no guilt in harboring a forbidden love.

Guilt can eat away at you and destroy the future as well as the past.

Good Lord, even to his own ears they sounded like a pair of coconspirators being so overhearty in their enthusiastic simulation of innocence that they proclaimed themselves as guilty as hell.

For Allie would suffer for what she had done this night. And he would be the last person on this earth who could comfort her.

To leave the apple unpicked—that was sin.

When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine — like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes.

it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer, than that one guilty should escape.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

ignominious grave, and I the cause! A thousand times

It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.

No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine. When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they may be, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself

Puede que sea inocente del crimen, ¡pero está claro que tiene mala conciencia!