Quotes About Guilt

Conscience is a treacherous thing, and mine behaves badly whenever there is a serious danger of being found out.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)

One crime is everything; two nothing.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.

I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the same time. When 'Obscure Object of Desire' came out in France, I felt guilty for my friends at the National School who weren't in the movies. The whole thing was turmoil.

It's kind of sad, the way we've turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli - something to feel guilty about if you don't force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

Men have the choice to arrange their schedules so they can pick up the kids from school twice a week. And they have the choice not to, and then to feel guilty about this choice.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.