Guilt Quotes

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist, dramatist.

I had most need of blessing and “Amen” Stuck in my throat.

The offender never forgives.

Russian proverb.

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself.

R.D. Laing (b.1927) British psychiatrist.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

Horace Bushnell.

God hath yoked to guilt, her pale tormentor, misery.

Bryant.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in lost perdition ends.

Young.

Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Blair.

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.

Shakespeare.

It is the inevitable end of guilt that it places its won punishment on a chance which is sure to occur.

L.E. Landon.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

Wordsworth.

Better it were, that all the miseries which nature owns were ours at once, than guilt.

Shakespeare.

To what deep gulfs a single deviation from the track of human duties leads.

Byron.

He who is conscious of secret and dark designs, which, if known, would blast him, is perpetually shrinking and dodging from public observation, and is afraid of all around, and much more of all above him.

W. Wirt.

The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and leaves us with brutes.

Hovard.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

Shakespeare.

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.

South.

The guilt that feels not its own shame is wholly incurable. It was the redeeming promise in the fault of Adam, that with the commission of his crime came the sense of his nakedness.

Simms.

Thought it sleep long, the venom of great guilt, when death, or danger, or detection comes, will bite the spirit fiercely.

Shakespeare.

Guilt once happened in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Johnson.

Guilt is the source of sorrow, the avenging fiend, that follows us behind with whips and stings.

Rowe.

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed.

Shakespeare.

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

Cicero.

Guiltiness with speak though tongues were out of use.

Shakespeare.

Oh, that pang, where more than madness lies, the worm that will not sleep, and never dies.

Byron.

Oh. What a state is guilt! How wild, how wretched, when apprehension can from nought but fears, and we distrust security itself.

Havard.