Quotes About Guilt

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Han pasado tres semanas y aún me culpo de su muerte a todas horas, aunque Tom –el psicólogo con el que estoy haciendo terapia– dice que no fui responsable. Y, en el fondo, lo sé. Pero no puedo sacarme de la cabeza la idea de que si lo hubiera encontrado antes, si no lo hubiera dejado solo en el mar, si hubiera entrado con él en el agua, si no hubiéramos bebido o, incluso, si no hubiera luchado por conquistarlo, él ahora estaría vivo.

Anita se debate entre el asco que siente hacia sí misma y el placer sin nombre de un amor que le parece un crimen.

If you were a murderer, rapist or felon, it was the room where you were interrogated.

More and more, he relied on alcohol to numb himself from the pain of his relationship with Estelle, his anxiety about Meta, the difficulties of writing, and his inability to confront crises that inevitably came his way, such as the deaths of friends and family. Certainly the death of Dean continued to flood him with guilt over his part in encouraging his brother in his career as an aviator and, indeed, selling him the plane that had brought him down.

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself.

They are not faithful. Above all, they have a blemish, a wound, comparable to the bunch of grapes in Stilitano's pants. In short, the greater my guilt in your eyes, the more whole, the more totally assumed, the greater will be my freedom. The more perfect my solitude and singleness.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.

Quand tu sauras mon crime, et le sort qui m'accable, Je n'en mourrai pas moins, j'en mourrai plus coupable

Grâces au ciel, mes mains ne sont point criminelles. Plût aux dieux que mon cÅ"ur fût innocent comme elles!

She had been born knowing that boldness erased fear, while cowardice invited it and earned her only more ill treatment. No matter how she shook with dread in private, she would never show fear before her questioners or her guards. In men's minds fear was a certain mark of guilt.

TODA MI FAMILIA ESTÁ MUERTA POR MI CULPA

Batty had been blown up, drowned, smashed on the rocks, or some combination of the three. And it was all Skye's fault.

I don't know if I killed my dad or not.

Tragische Schuld verkörpert sich im permanenten Konflikt zwischen der uralten religiösen Vorstellung von der Missetat als einer Beschmutzung, die einer ganzen Rasse anhaftet und unausweichlich von einer Generation auf die nächste vererbt wird [...], und dem neuen vom Gesetz übernommenen Konzept, nach dem der Schuldige definiert wird als Privatperson, die sich aus eigenem Antrieb und unter keinem Zwang stehend entschlossen hat, ein Verbrechen zu begehen.

it's crazy to think he wouldn't call the police. But I despise him. I don't care how irrational it is; if my mind worked normally, I wouldn't have killed eight people for the fun of it.

When I was little, my dad used to say, "Son, guilt doesn't make a very fluffy pillow.

You think I suffer, with all the people I have killed, the hundreds of lives I have destroyed. Should not demons visit me at night? Should I not be tormented by guilt? Sometimes I lie still in my be and wait for judgement, but it never arrives.

It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modelling self-destructive behaviour, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.