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We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Human, All-Too-Human,
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Forbear to lay the guilt of a few on the many.
-Ovid
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The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
-Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
-Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire (Lestat)
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Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend,
Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind,
With whips and stings
-Nicholas Rowe
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Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
-John Ruskin
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Guilt is often an appropriate response to wrongdoing, but punishment impedes the development of a conscience by taking away the opportunity for him to feel guilty. He has no chance to develop inner motivation.
-Nancy Samalin
Loving Your Child Is Not Enough, ch. 4 (1987)
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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 von Schiller
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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.
-Albert Schweitzer
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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
-William Shakespeare
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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
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
-Publilius Syrus
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Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
-Tacitus
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.
-Kenneth L. Woodward
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Books about Guilt
