Guilt

What is guilt?

It is moral self-reproach -

I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

-Nathaniel Branden

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves -

what we did or did not do.

-Peter McWilliams

 

Guilt is anything you did

and fear others to know about.

-Muhammed

 

The guilty heart

needs no accuser

-The Oculatum

 

The guilty think all talk

is of themselves.

-Geoffrey Chaucer

 

A guilty conscience is like that of a whirlpool

drawing in all to itself

that would otherwise pass by.

-Thomas Fuller

 

Guilt has very quick ears

to an accusation.

-Henry Fielding

 

A given excuse that was not asked for

implies guilt.

-Singaporean Proverb

 

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

-Publilius Syrus

 

The guilt being great,

the fear doth still exceed.

-William Shakespeare

 

Innocence has a single voice

that can say over and over again

"I didn't do it."

Guilt has a thousand voices,

all of them lies.

-Leonard F. Peltier

 

Each snowflake in an avalanche

pleads not guilty.

-Stanislaw J. Lec

 

Every man is guilty

of the all the good he didn't do.

-Voltaire

 

Short is the joy

that guilty pleasure brings.

-Euripides

 

Healthy guilt is the emotional core our our conscience.

It is emotion which results from behaving 

in a manner contrary to our beliefs and values.

-John Bradshaw

 

No guilt is forgotten

so long as the conscience still knows of it.

-Stefan Zweig

 

A guilty conscience is a hidden enemy.

-Native American Proverb

 

Let this be your wall of brass,

to have nothing on your conscience,

no guilt to make you turn pale.

-Horace

When there is guilt, let it emblazon the lesson learned on your memory
so that the mistake will never again be repeated.

-Mike Dooley

 

Guilt is the teacher,

love is the lesson.

-Joan Borysenko