Quotes About Guilt

So when he saw his shirt rent from behind, he said: Surely it is a guile of you women; surely your guile is great: O Yusuf! turn aside from this; and (O my wife)! ask forgiveness for your fault, surely you are one of the wrong-doers.

It wasn't your fault. You just lied. It was mine... for believing every word you said.

When someone breaks your trust it makes THEM look bad not you. They're the one that's guilty, dishonest and disloyal, not you.

That instant pain of guilt when you know you have betrayed the person that just trusted his life to you.

I just killed my best friend...and my worst enemy." "What's the difference?

Every sin carries its own punishment.

My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

Nausea and panic rose in my throat. I had killed a man.

The poker fell from my trembling hands as my entire body shook with reaction. I fell to my knees, pressed my hands to my face and began to sob. What had I done?

I'd gotten someone killed.The price people seem to pay for crossing my path.

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

I was going to sip on a diet soda, but a little voice convinced me I needed the extra calcium from a cup of hot chocolate.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

She felt guilty, as she had when she'd heard Matt's deep, beloved voice after thirty-odd years. She'd been too flustered to say much to him, and in the end, regretfully, she'd hung up on him out of sheer embarrassment.

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.