Top Guilt Quotes

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for lif...

Gore Vidal, for instance, once languidly told me that one should never miss a chance either to have sex or to appear on television. My efforts to live up to this maxim have mainly resulted in my passi...

Guilt Definition

(v. t.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.

(v. t.) Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.

Man created Guilt. Guilt is the Perpetual Engine that Drives the World.

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since violation of standards, rules, and goals are insufficient in its elicitation unless responsibility c...

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.

Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. …Callo, I’m so sorry that your life ended up this way, she sighs as she gets out of h...

He was clearly not the murderer whom Hawksmoor was seeking, but it was generally the innocent who confessed: in the course of many enquiries, Hawksmoor had come across those who accused themselves of...

Most injuries heal in time, but guilt is a cancer that knows where to hide.

Disappointment, fear, grief, unlove, dullness and guilt are the worst feelings. Learn from them so that you move on. Then replace them with more satisfying and promising joy, love gratitude, pride, co...

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of...

I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

People, in general, tend to project onto others their own state of mind. Well-meaning people inevitably assume other people are well meaning. People who cheat assume everyone cheats. People who deceiv...

Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide,A part of you has died.

I knew I should be grateful to Mrs Guinea, only I couldn't feel a thing. If Mrs Guinea had given me a ticket to Europe, or a round-the-world cruise, it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me...

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our liv...

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that...