1,201 Quotes About Guilt

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

Age carries with it a double load of guilt

I was always fraught with guilt, and it's such a waste of an emotion. It keeps you out of the moment of being where you are.

Had this author [Sir W Drummond Academical Questions, chap. iii.], instead of inveighing against the guilt and absurdity of atheism, demonstrated its falsehood, his conduct would have, been more suited to the modesty of the skeptic and the toleration of the philosopher.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

I carry lots of guilt.