1,201 Quotes About Guilt

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

It is not the criminal things which are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.

The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.

Let the guilt teach you how to behave next time,

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.