Top 68 Guilt Conscience Quotes
#1. Guilt makes people do the weirdest things. It must be awful to have a conscience.
Angelika Rust
#2. If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Charlotte Bronte
#3. He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.
Charles Spurgeon
#4. But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
James Otis
#6. The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist ... Humans are helpless to detach themselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart bowed down with the weight of sin. But where humans have failed, God has succeeded.
Billy Graham
#7. Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.
Brooks Atkinson
#8. The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
Leo Tolstoy
#9. Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Evan Esar
#10. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.
Jon Ronson
#11. Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
Horace
#12. I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.
David Sedaris
#13. You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.
Philip Roth
#14. How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?'
'I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.
Cinda Williams Chima
#15. Guilt is a hunter. My conscience mocked me, picking fights like a petulant child. It's all your fault, the voice whispered. I
Ruta Sepetys
#16. With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble.
Ashish Patel
#17. No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.
E. M. Forster
#18. Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.
Hanif Kureishi
#19. It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. It's not about people believing the story. It's about you knowing and holding it to be true.
Joan Ambu
#22. Guilt cannot change you; it can only hint that there's something worth your effort to change.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#23. Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.
Suzy Kassem
#24. I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.
Mary Griffith
#25. A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.
Ndamukong Suh
#26. The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#27. A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.
Richard G. Scott
#28. With the child already shame-based, the feeling of discouragement takes over the whole personality. As the shame-based child forms her primitive conscience, shame becomes immorality or neurotic guilt. The conforming child believes he can do nothing right,
John Bradshaw
#29. That's why you have to go and guilt him for all the trouble. It can't be your fault that you lost your memory if he wasn't smart enough to tell you about the wine.
Denny B. Reese
#30. Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appeal to it even to justify wrongdoing; rationalization is the homage paid by sin to guilty knowledge.
J. Budziszewski
#31. My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
David Sedaris
#32. We can't make up for lost time, but we can make room to share space.
T.F. Hodge
#33. Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.
Shannon L. Alder
#35. Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don't make a u-turn.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#36. Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs of conscience.
Jo Nesbo
#37. This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#38. Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did before?
No. March fills my head like a warm glow. Instead you receive the twin delights of guilt and regret.
Ann Aguirre
#39. Guilt doesn't stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.
Nityananda Das
#40. Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
#41. The reputation is not essentially built by earning too much, learning too many things, achieving awards, bagging rewards or catapulting position to the hilt; but by unquestionably staying simple, humble , well grounded and doing nothing that makes own conscience to feel guilt.
Anuj
#42. Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
#43. A man in loss is not a man to trust.
Auliq Ice
#44. As time will not wear out the guilt of sin, so it will not blot out the records of conscience;
Matthew Henry
#45. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but is not always rightly imposed.
R.A. Salvatore
#46. 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.
Robert South
#47. It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.
Stephen Chbosky
#48. Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.
Lino Rulli
#49. Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.
Criss Jami
#50. Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#51. What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.
Bob Barr
#52. I couldn't begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried guilt for some unforgivable depravity. Then again, perhaps not.
Angel Rosa
#53. This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience.
Joseph Conrad
#54. Do not pour guilt into someone's psyche, and don't let anyone tamper with your conscience.
Zeina
#55. I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.
Martin Parr
#56. At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.
Darin Strauss
#57. Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
Iris Murdoch
#58. I'm just doing what I have to do. I don't have a choice."
"Yeah, good luck going to bed with a guilt-free conscience with that sorry-ass excuse."
The sour expression evaporated from Mr. Greek's face. His gaze switched back to the computer. "Keep talking and I'll gag you."
"Blow me.
Santino Hassell
#59. A conscience free from guilt leads to tranquility of the mind, and only a tranquil mind can see things as they truly are.
Bohdi Sanders
#60. Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
Horace
#61. In our culture, guilt is a tainted word, but it's probably one of the building blocks of conscience.
Susan Cain
#63. All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe.
Donald Miller
#64. No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
Stefan Zweig
#66. All the pop psychologists are misleading people about things like guilt and conscience. Guilt is a noble emotion; the person without it is a monster.16
Paul Pearsall
#68. Know, then," said he, "that I myself am the destiny - the demon, as thou sayest, by whom I am persecuted and destroyed, that my conscience is loaded with guilt, nay, with the stain of a shameful, infamous, and mortal crime,
E.T.A. Hoffmann
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