Ian Warner“The most guilty people are the most generous ones-this is the common law.” — Pierre Beaumarchais. Here are 50 Famous Guilty Quotes.
Guilty Quotes
1. “Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.” — Karl Lagerfeld
2.“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” — William Shakespeare
3.“Guilt is just as powerful as shame, but its influence is positive, while shame’s is destructive.” —Brene Brown
4. “The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter. ” — Tanith Lee
5. “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” — Voltaire
6. “The most guilty people are the most generous ones-this is the common law.” — Pierre Beaumarchais
7. “If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.” — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
8. “Every guilty person is his own hangman. ”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
9. “True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.” —R.D. Laing
10.“Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. ”—Terry Goodkind
11. “Don’t feel guilty about driving somewhere nice to run. If people can drive to a park to eat hot dogs, you can drive there to run. ”— Bill Rodgers
12. “A guilty conscience needs no accuser.”— Unknown
Guilty Quotes
13. “When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.” — Anthony De Mello
14. “Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.” — Coco Chanel
15. “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”― Hamlet
16. “My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”―
17. “No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.”―
18. “The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”―
19. “Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.”―
20.“No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.”―
21.“He could deal with his guilt all by himself. Guilt didn’t add up to love, an emotion she was done with forever.”
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22. “Guilt is a useless feeling. It’s never enough to make you change direction–only enough to make you useless.”
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23. “Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.”
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24. “You don’t have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty.”
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Guilty Quotes
25. “Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it’s cleaned. And there’s only one way to do that.”
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26.“Peace is a place of unhindered enjoyment of friendship beyond guilt, suspicion, blame of inferiority”
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27. “The existence of guilty sense is so important in education and religion.”―
28. “Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion”―
29.“Don’t allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportunities that will change your life. Expect these things – work for them and don’t ever stop until they’re yours.”―
30.“You’re guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that’s the way that it is in this world.”— Chris Webber
31. “A guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul.’ ―
32.“Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.”―
33. “Guilt is the toothache of the soul.”―
34. “You’re making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we’re at the center of the universe. We’re not.”
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35. “Guilt loves the passive.”―
36. “We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are. A person feels guilt because he did something wrong. A person feels shame because he is something wrong.”―
Guilty Quotes
37. “It is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.”
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38. “A mind conscious of guilt is its own accuser.”―
39.“The innocent are more likely to feel guilty for the good they haven’t done than the guilty for the evil they have.”
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40. “Guilt is a burden, so forgive yourself for the mistakes.”―
41. “Guilt is the most merciless disease of man. It stains all the other areas of living. It darkens all skies.”
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42. “You don’t have to be guilty of anything in order to feel guilt”―
43. “Guilt is an acknowledgment of debt for unbalanced transactions.”―
44.“Guilt is a feeling I’ve never made much peace with. I find that when it rears its head, it brings an army. When I feel guilty for one thing, I start to see all the other things I should feel guilty for.”―
45. “Guilt and fear are so intertwined that they cannot be separated. Love and guilt cannot exist simultaneously any more than love and fear can.”―
46. “Guilt is just your ego’s way of tricking you into thinking you’re making moral progress.”―
47. “If I were to do nothing, I’d be guilty of complicity.”―
48. “Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.”―
49. “Happiness is often curtailed by guilt.”―
50. “It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”― Voltaire
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