Guilt Quotes

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
Hans Frank

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
Isabelle Holland

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one’s guilt by one’s looks.
Ovid

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn’t.
Alan Cohen

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

There is no such thing as collective guilt.
Kurt Waldheim

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Saint Aurelius Augustine

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand

He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.
Anon

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Publilius Syrus

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.
Horace Bushnell

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.
Voltaire

Guilt is always jealous.
John Ray

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

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ~
Conte Vittorio Alfieri

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
Ayn Rand,

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
Edward Young

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

Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
Alexander Chase

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.
George Sand

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding