Guilt Quotes - Page 10

The hands of the guilty don't necessarily tremble; only in stories does a dropped glass betray agitation. Tension is more often shown in the studied action.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.

The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.

If guilt tells us that we've done something wrong, then shame tells us that we are something wrong. So many people feel isolated, not good enough, defined by the labels they wear rather than the identity they have in Christ. The love of Christ tells us that we're accepted; that we belong.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Is it guilty in here or is it just me?

If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.

We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.

I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

Guilt is often an excuse for not thinking.

You feel guilt when you're not necessarily in the best mood and you say to your fans "No, I don't want to take a photo," or you're not as happy or bubbly as they probably thought you would be. I've had to remind myself that's okay. No one's forcing me or any other celebrity to take time out of their day to say hi to these fans or do these things. There is a sense of guilt that you can feel sometimes for not meeting their expectations, but that's kind of wrong for me to think that way, because I am a person.

Guilt didn't put any butter on the bread of life.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

I would feel so guilty about lying that I would try to stress myself out and work up a headache so I wouldn't have the guilt of not having a bit of the symptom.

We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.