Deeds Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

— Horace Bushnell

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

— Anais Nin

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Guilt is an outward expression of self degradation. It is acceptance of one’s culpability, indiscretion, liability, sin, dereliction, and harm without resolving the crime,…

— Deborah Bravandt

Guilt is the thief of life.

— Anthony Hopkins

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

— Craig Ferguson

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

— Jane Porter

Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe…

— Samuel Johnson

Guilt is glorious when it's well earned.

— Alice McDermott

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

— Ayn Rand

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

— Peter McWilliams