Quotes About Guilt

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)

My soul longs for God, but a man is not just his soul, is he? Terrible to say, my clay lusts after the clay of nubile girl. To soothe my guilt, and please forgive my indelicacy, I have convinced myself that I seek to find God again in their arms and their unmentionable places.

The guilt consciousness of the atomic bomb scientists is one of the most astounding things I have ever seen.

Behauptet das nicht jeder von sich, der Bomben zündet und Leute umbringt? Dass es gute Gründe dafür gibt? Dass es nur die Schuldigen trifft? Was soll das überhaupt heißen, schuldig und unschuldig?

Irgendwer muss ja schuld sein.

Die Schuldigen werden ihre Strafe bekommen.

He was my addiction and once I got that taste of him I wouldn't want to stop even if I was getting eaten alive with guilt for doing it. - Taylor First, The Tutor by Kailin Gow

We are wicked because we are frightfully self-conscious.

Read between the lines: she healed killers of their guilt.

I sometimes write in a cafe down the road from my house now because I feel guilty trying to work if I can hear them playing. I invariably end up sat in a corner, depressed, retreating into my own world.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I bought a Burberry jacket that I call my Chris Martin jacket. It's a bomber and was very expensive - there are just two in the world - and I felt very guilty.

It's serious to actually be found guilty and get jail time. It's really serious and a bit weird. But it's so bizarre that we were convicted at all.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.

I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.

God said: GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE "GUILTY" OR NOT. I said: I CARE IF I AM GUILTY! I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!... God was silent. Everything was SILENT.

Then, I said to myself: 'HISTORY IS HUMAN NATURE—; TO SAY I AM GUILTY IS TO ACCEPT IMPLICATION IN THE HUMAN RACE. . .' —Now, for months and months, I have found ANOTHER MAN in me—; HE is NOT me—; I am afraid of him …

Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator

Did I kill him?" I said. "No, miss," said Robert. "Pity.

When you hate yourself, you don't neglect your responsibilities. When you hate yourself, you never forget what you did