(269 quotes found)
“Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway”
Isabelle Holland
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
John Adams
“Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong”
Tryon Edwards
“That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man”
Kahlil Gibran
“Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing, been nothing.”
William Kennedy
“Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.”
John Lennon
“Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose”
Latin Proverb
“Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt”
William Shakespeare
