(268 quotes found)
“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were”
Horace
“Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.”
Peter McWilliams
“No work for love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
Alan Watts
“ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.”
Ambrose Bierce
“I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.”
Edward Burns
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.”
Coco Chanel
“Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.”
Samuel Johnson
“Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.”
Dennis Miller
“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.”
Bishop Robert South
“No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.”
William Saroyan
