Guilt Quotes

1189 Guilt quotes by 844 unique authors

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. — Robert Southey
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets… — Robert Southey
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor… — Henry Fielding
How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight! — Alexander Pope
Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. — Thomas Paine
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm… — Jimmy Carter
Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation. — Archibald MacLeish
It feels much nobler to feel guilty than resentful, and it takes more courage to express resentment than guilt. With expressing guilt you expect to… — Frederick Salomon Perls
We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt. — Ayn Rand
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which… — David Sedaris
People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they… — Pema Chodron
Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the… — Richard Rohr
The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision. — Rollo May
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he… — John Tillotson
I always felt guilty. My whole life. — Ingrid Bergman
It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives… — Harold S. Kushner
People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and… — Helen Gurley Brown
If I could get angry at you, I would try to kill every one of you. If that's guilt, I accept it. — Charles Manson
Guilt soon learns to lie. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt… — Marlene Dumas
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility. — Norman Vincent Peale
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so… — Thomas Aquinas
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty. — Golda Meir
No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the… — Norman Vincent Peale

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