1,201 Quotes About Guilt

Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

The man of upright life, unstained by guilt

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

Most of the time there is testing, it confirms the guilt of the defendant,

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt.