Guilt Quote by Edward Young

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

— Jacques Lacan

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

— Horace Bushnell

You are the land. The land is you.

— Merlin Olsen

Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Guilt is like tarnish on a piece of silver. It effectively obscures beauty and radiance, but can never lessen its true value. Just as…

— Darren Main

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration…

— Barry Lopez

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that…

— Henry Fielding

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

— Ayn Rand

Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, frequently produce guilt.

— Samuel Johnson

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

— Lawrence Durrell