Guilty Conscience Quotes

• A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Hipster, Needs

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

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• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Mind

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

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• A guilty conscience never feels secure.

  Publilius Syrus

  Guilt, Feels, Secure

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• No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Long, Guilt, Forgotten

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Integrity, Humility, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Doors, Self

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• An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Hair, Mouths, Uneasy

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Wrath, Divine Justice

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.204

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• I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Affliction, Bears, Guilty

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.

  Ivo Andric

  Dark, Men, Years

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• Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

  George Sewell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh. [In Five Acts and in Verse.]”, p.4

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• A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

  Carolyn Wells

  Mother, Guilt, Invention

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

  John Tillotson

  Men, Wicked, Wickedness

  John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.52

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• A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Honesty, Long, Solitude

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• Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Guilt, Way, Persons

  Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

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• A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

  Jakob Dylan

  Wisdom, Mean, Guilty

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• How tedious is a guilty conscience!

  John Webster

  Guilt, Tedious, Conscience

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.181, Manchester University Press

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• I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

  Albert Einstein

  Food, Animal, Flesh

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.454, Princeton University Press

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• A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Stars, Winning, Awards

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• I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

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• Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

  Buchi Emecheta

  Guilty, Conscience

  Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.165, Heinemann

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• Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

  Arcangela Tarabotti

  Men, Wicked, Speak

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• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

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• Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

  Isaac Watts

  Friday, Sacrifice, Blood

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• This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.

  Deb Caletti

  Space, Perfect, Waiting

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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