Quotes About Guilt

Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

Adam returned his gaze to the cross. The Jesus was hurting. Guilt simmered and then boiled in him. Jesus had a whole world of suffering and horror to worry about and here Adam was in all his punk puniness. He didn't want to add to Jesus's burdens, but... 'Sorry about that. Look, I know you're busy and I don't want to get greedy with your time, but still, if you could just help me... If you could find a minute, please, please, please, dear sweet Jesus, fix me.

Guilt is always hungry, don't let it consume you.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

known to humankind through the creation that surrounds them, God exposes that early generation's unthankfulness and points an omniscient finger of guilt toward their idolatrous betrayal, the particular

Guilt drives you away from God, not toward Him.

in contrast to a garment of praise, guilt is the uniform. It's a straitjacket called fatalism.

j'ai lu une phrase: pouvez-vous me dire si elle provient du Talmud? Tu ne seras pas puni pour les pêchés commis, mais pour touts les bons moments que tu n'as pas vécus

Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.

Oh yes, Joh—oh yes! Your sin walks behind you like a good dog on the trail. It does not lose your scent, Joh—it remains always and always at your back. A friend is unarmed against his friend. He has no shield before his breast, nor armor before his heart. A friend who believes in his friend is a defenseless man. A defenseless man was it whom you betrayed, Joh.

Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!" schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen.

was Aristotle who said that a man who committed an offence while intoxicated was doubly guilty: first of the offence itself, and second of having intoxicated himself.