Guilt Quotes - Page 6

• No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Fear, Heart

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.79, Souvenir Press

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• Guilt isn't always a rational thing, Clio realized. Guilt is a weight that will crush you whether you deserve it or not.

  Maureen Johnson

  Crush, Weight, Rational

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• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Wicked, World

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

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• I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

  Angelina Jolie

  Inspirational, Positive, Hurt

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• The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Thinking, Shame, Canterbury Tales

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

  Ayn Rand

  Rope, Guilt Feelings

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.684, Hamilton Books

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• Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

  Evan Esar

  Mother, Boys, Doe

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• It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

  Hannah Arendt

  Depressing, Being Sad, Noble

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.221, Penguin

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• He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

  Publilius Syrus

  Trials

  "Maxims".

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• Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Optimistic, Sadness

  'Mansfield Park' (1814) ch. 48

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• It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

  Hannah Arendt

  Depressing, Repent, Hard

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.221, Penguin

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• Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Halloween, Dark

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.279

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• Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

  Coco Chanel

  Death, Christian, Grief

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• My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

  Franz Kafka

  Guiding Principles, Doubted, Principles

  Franz Kafka (2009). “The Metamorphosis: And Other Stories”, p.198, Schocken

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

  Charles James

  Trying, Levels, Bears

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• Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

  Henry Fielding

  Ears, Shame, Accusation

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.150

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• Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

  John Adams

  Peace, War, History

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.474

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• Guilt soon learns to lie.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Lying

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1884). “Ishmael: A Novel”

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• It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

  Oscar Wilde

  Keeping Secrets, Giving, Confession

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 8 (1891)

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• Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

  Max Frisch

  Use, Lives Of Others, Justify

  Max Frisch (1975). “Montauk”, Suhrkamp Publishers

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• All the seven deadly sins are man's true nature. To be greedy. To be hateful. To have lust. Of course, you have to control them, but if you're made to feel guilty for being human, then you're going to be trapped in a never-ending sin-and-repent cycle that you can't escape from.

  Marilyn Manson

  Nature, Regret, Hate

  Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com. 2001.

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• Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Henry Miller

  Knowledge, Tree, Literature

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

  Robert South

  Heart, Iron, Doe

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• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Mind

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

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• Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

  Hannah Arendt

  Discovery, Doing Nothing, Prison

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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