Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Guilt.
...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.
Jodi Picoult
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Tacitus
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
Willard Gaylen
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca th
It is criminal to steal a purse,daring to steal a fortune,a mark of greatness to steal a crown.The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich von Schiller
Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
Anne Rice, Interview with the Va
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.
Albert Schweitzer
Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted.
Junius, Letters, No. 67. (1772)
Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.Culpam poena premit comes
Horace
Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.
Junius
All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.
Kenneth L. Woodward
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
In the small circle of pain within the skullYou still shall tramp and tread one endless roundOf thought, to justify your action to yourselves,Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave,Pacing forever in the hell of make-believeWhich never is belief: this is your fate on earthAnd we must think no further of you.
TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, Murde
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
Chaucer
Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne issdem de causis alii plectantur,alii ne appellentur quidem.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De offici
He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
Proverb, Robert Christy, Proverb
Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind,With whips and stings
Nicholas Rowe
He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.
Anon., Legal maxim
We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, AllT
