Guilty Quotes
1092 quotes by 900 authors
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But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good,…
— Jose Rizal
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People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they…
— Ayn Rand
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there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.…
— Charles Bukowski
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Although I could never get used to the constant state of anxiety in which the guilty, the great, and the tenderhearted live, I felt I…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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You know when things are bad when you feel guilty for being rude to vampires. Jacob B. Ch.14
— Stephenie Meyer
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It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty.
— Hermann Hesse
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Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.
— Sándor Márai
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If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.
— Pete McCarthy
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The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to…
— Cassandra Clare
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Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going…
— Joyce Meyer
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She sat in the dew-damp grass and ripped up clumps of it, tossing them in the air and feeling vaguely guilty about it. Some gnome…
— Holly Black
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It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create…
— Terry Pratchett
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He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
— James M. Barrie
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he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.
— Walter Dean Myers
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Where are you going?" I asked, feeling guilty for not being able to hang out with him. "To find a faerie to kill me, of…
— Kiersten White
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God, I am freaking out. Maybe he doesn’t know. Maybe I just look guilty of something and he’s picking up on that.
— Jay Asher
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It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.
— Jeff Lindsay
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He’s bound to have done something,†Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patrician’s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime,…
— Terry Pratchett
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So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of…
— Bernhard Schlink
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