Quotes About Guilt

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

A good memory is needed once we have lied.

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

All sins cast long shadows.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential - generosity, service, self-sacrifice, unselfishness and duty.

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.

Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

O shame! Where is they blush?

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

So many laws argue so many sins.

In Adam's Fall We sinned all.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

Worry is the sin we're not afraid to commit.

Shame is heavier than a bag of salt.

There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.

Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it? She bit his good shoulder. You're about to find out. She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side.

Murder doesn't leave anyone innocent. It shouldn't.

Peabody only smiled. Guilt was the best tool, she knew. She'd learned that one at her mother's knee.