Guilt Quotes

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 Brontë)
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. View quote
Angelina Jolie
Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. View quote
John Ruskin
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. View quote
V. S. Pritchett
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. View quote
William Cowper
Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation. View quote
Henry Fielding
To o get angry is like to revenge yourself for the guilt of others. View quote
Jonathan Swift
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased. View quote
Hans Frank
Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it. (George Soros)
It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear. View quote
William Saroyan
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. View quote
Omar Bradley
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away? View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. View quote
Jane Austen
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. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. View quote
Anna Sewell
If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make? View quote
Germaine Greer
Guilt is a rope that wears thin. (Ayn Rand)
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Csar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy. View quote
Joseph Addison
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. View quote
Lillian Hellman
Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the Christian Church to insure guilt on the part of its followers. View quote
Anton LaVey