Guilt Quotes - Page 8

• For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

  Lillian Hellman

  Life, Freedom, Men

  Lillian Hellman (1944). “Watch on the Rhine: Acting Ed. Play in Three Acts”

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• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Real, House, Foundation

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.515, e-artnow

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• Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

  John Denham

  Gold, Foam, Amber

  John Denham, “Cooper's Hill”

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Judging, Existentialism, Witch

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.66, Penguin

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• It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Greatness, Criminals, Crowns

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• He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

  Seneca the Younger

  Free Will, Guilty, Not Guilty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Hercules Oetaeus, 886, 1922.

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• Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

  Ovid

  Difficult, Betray, Countenance

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• How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!

  Alexander Pope

  Glowing, Delight

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1866). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. ...”, p.110

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• Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Soul, Warning, Your Soul

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• Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Order, People, Feelings

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• There is no such thing as collective guilt.

  Kurt Waldheim

  Collectives

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• We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

  Thomas Szasz

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Individual

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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• We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Moon, Knaves

  William Shakespeare (2008). “King Lear: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Weakness, Essentials

  "The Voice of the Master". Book by Khalil Gibran. Translated by Anthony R. Ferris, 1958.

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• The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

  Ayn Rand

  Witty, Accepting, Worst

  "Atlas Shrugged".

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• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

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• There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

  Michael Connelly

  Men, Innocent Man, Scary

  Michael Connelly (2011). “The Lincoln Lawyer Novels: The Lincoln Lawyer, The Brass Verdict, The Reversal”, Little, Brown

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• There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Important, Innocence

  Winston Churchill (2015). “My African Journey”, p.42, Richard Clay & Sons

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• If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.

  Baal Shem Tov

  Men, Order, Evil

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• To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

  James Dickey

  Sometimes, Feels, Ought

  James Dickey (1972). “Self-interviews”

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• I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.

  Janet Reno

  Death Penalty, Vote, Legislature

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• The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Sacrifice, Duty, Treason

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1885). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”

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• We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.

  Bill Toomey

  Games, Drug, Events

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• I am suspicious of guilt in myself and in other people; it is usually a way of not thinking, or of announcing one's own fine sensibilities the better to be rid of them fast.

  Lillian Hellman

  Thinking, People, Way

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