Abstract Quote by Michael Grant

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in…

— Penelope Leach

“The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.”

— Roshani Chokshi

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 was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer…

— Edmund Burke

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be…

— John Jakes

I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored…

— Harper Lee

“Somehow the sting of guilt was always more acute when there was a risk that she might get caught.”

— Frances Hardinge

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past

— Wayne Dyer

“Guilt is like a sore, endlessly fascinating, and the guilty party feels compelled to examine it and pick at it, so that it never…

— Stephen King

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

— Horace Bushnell

“Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds,…

— J.D. Mason

Guilt is an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes that he or she has compromised his or her own standards…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha