Guilt Quotes

"You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it."
-Clive Barker

"Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow."
-Horace Bushnell

"You can bear anything-if it isn't your own fault."
-Katherine Fullerton Gerould

"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.There is no greater guilt than discontentment.And there is no greater disaster than greed."
-Lao tzu

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

"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves -- at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others -- at what they did or did not do."
-Peter McWilliams

"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do."
-Peter McWilliams

"Guilt is a rope that wears thin."
-Ayn Rand

"Guilt and innocence were not really at issue here. It's clear that he violated the statute."
-Jon Bruning

"It's an admission of guilt. That's what makes me happy. The money had nothing to do with it."
-Bill Gardner

"Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt."
-William Cowper

"Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't."
-Alan Cohen

"The prosecutor believes that the guilt of the defendants has been fully proven and asked to find them guilty on all charges."
-Ruslan Koblev

"You've really got to be able to handle guilt."
-Dave Righetti

"Merciful death, how you love your precious guilt."
-Anne Rice

"His guilt is proven by all the evidence collected on all counts of the indictment."
-Vladimir Ustinov

"Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves."
-Titus Livy

"Maybe part of their brilliance is they're not as guilt-ridden about it."
-Tom Rosenstiel

"I never had any reason to doubt his guilt. The evidence was overwhelming."
-Thomas Scott

"He had a life in which trauma existed. I can appreciate the guilt felt by the accused for the disappearance of his sister: 'had I gone with, this would not have happened'."
-Johann Engelbrecht Sc

"The prosecutors were aware that they would not be able to prove his guilt, so they refused to let him go to Moscow."
-Milanka Sojic

"Hector Mine was a dream earthquake. All the fun of a magnitude 7 without any of the guilt."
-Lucy Jones

"Guilt is always jealous."
-John Ray

"We weren't there to judge guilt or innocence."
-Ana Verley

"The father's injury, in this case, can be connected to guilt at having been away. He was not there for his father."
-Maurice Elias

"The prosecutors are aware that they will not be able to prove his guilt, so they have refused him to go to Moscow."
-Milanka Sojic

"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt."
-Titus Maccius Plautus

"It comes down to the jury. Not one expressed an opinion to the defendants' guilt."
-David Buckner