Friendship Quote by Nicholas Rowe

“Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.”

— Nicholas Rowe

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Lawrence Durrell

“Guilt is to the soul as pain is to the body, a warning that harm is being done.”

— Fay Weldon

“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] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.

— Veronica Roth

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

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

— Horace

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

— Ayn Rand

sorrow is easier than guilt.

— Anne Sexton