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Guilt Quotes - Page 17

When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.

"R. Kelly Talks Sexual Abuse as a Child, Aaliyah Relationship & Allegations With GQ". Interview with Adelle Platon, www.billboard.com. January 20, 2016.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.110, Faber & Faber

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.94