Guilt Quotes - Page 22

This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed. [Lat., Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, Facti crimen habet.]

For whoever meditates a crime is guilty of the deed.

No-fault guilt: This is when, instead of trying to figure out who's to blame, everyone pays.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Guilt is always jealous

The first chapters of the Bible tell us of the sin of man. The guilt of that sin had rested upon every single one of us, it guilt and its terrible results..but..it also tells us of something greater still; it tells us of the grace of the offended God.

You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.

Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.

Every man bears something within him that, if it were publicly announced, would excite feelings of aversion.

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.