Top 75 Quotes About Guilty Conscience
#1. Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.
Thor Heyerdahl
#2. Fear of dying must surely mean fear of how one dies. If one can be assured of a painless death, how can one fear it, unless one is a religious fanatic with a very guilty conscience?
Dimitris Mita
#3. A guilty conscience is not worth extra food.
Ruta Sepetys
#4. I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience
Steven Spielberg
#5. 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
#6. A guilty conscience speaks a thousand words...Just saying
Jasmine Lee
#8. While many believers walk around with a guilty conscience and feel disqualified to receive God's promises, we are able to enter a level of freedom that assures us we are qualified at any moment to boldly enter His presence, to shine with His glory, and to do great exploits for His kingdom.
Katherine Ruonala
#9. 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
#10. For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?
Yes, we should believe it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#11. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.
Eric Hoffer
#12. A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Carolyn Wells
#13. Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.
Eric Hoffer
#14. Ha, no, that it's always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn't care less. It's the ones fighting for good who are consumed by remorse.
David Lagercrantz
#15. It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse
#16. Worldlings may well be afraid, for they have an angry God above them, a guilty conscience within them, and a yawning hell beneath them; but we who rest in Jesus are saved from all these through rich mercy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#17. The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#19. There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God.
Christoph Von Schmid
#20. If the truth scares you, know that it is your guilty conscience reacting to Truth.
Billy Graham
#21. I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
Albert Einstein
#22. A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.
John R.W. Stott
#23. He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.
David Baldacci
#24. I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.
Charles Spurgeon
#26. Guilty conscience is the number one liar and the producer of suspicion.
ABC
#27. 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
#29. A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.
L. Quick
#30. The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...
Tove Jansson
#31. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
#32. A guilty conscience means at least you have one.
Jakob Dylan
#33. Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.
Billy Graham
#34. Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?
John Tillotson
#35. it's always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn't care less.
David Lagercrantz
#36. And it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time.
Saint-John Perse
#37. 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
#38. I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.
Diyar Harraz
#39. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.
Francis Quarles
#40. We can't make up for lost time, but we can make room to share space.
T.F. Hodge
#41. The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Aleister Crowley
#43. My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;
Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!
William Shakespeare
#44. The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#45. This is what we love in friends. We love to the point that human conscience feels guilty if we do not love the person who is loving us, and if that love is not returned - without demanding any physical response other than the marks of affectionate good will.
Augustine Of Hippo
#46. The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.
Mikhail Bakunin
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. My conscience was going to give me trouble on this one.
That's the naggy little person who lives in your brain and makes you feel guilty about stuff.
Man, I hate that guy sometimes.
Katherine Applegate
#50. One faerie - and then we were free. Just on more swing of my arm.
And maybe one more after that - maybe one more swing, up and inward and into my own heart.
Sarah J. Maas
#51. If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
George Herbert
#52. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who ... drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
Susan B. Anthony
#53. As for the errors I make, the only punishment I acknowledge for having made them is my awareness of those errors, and having to live with it: there is, there should be, no heavier penalty on a person's soul, mind and heart.
Joumana Haddad
#54. My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.
Giulio Andreotti
#55. This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver.
Boris Pasternak
#56. Guilt cannot change you; it can only hint that there's something worth your effort to change.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#57. Guilt doesn't stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.
Nityananda Das
#58. When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in.
Henry James
#59. Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#60. If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#61. 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
#62. If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
Max Frisch
#63. 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
#64. Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don't make a u-turn.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#65. A man in loss is not a man to trust.
Auliq Ice
#66. Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening.
Martina Boone
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Lajos Kossuth
#71. You'll never let me go, will you? Giving me the space and freedom I want isn't your idea of love, is it? You'd rather cut me deep on earth to spare me pain in hell, whereas I think hell is right here.
Matthew J. Hefti
#72. Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.
Iris Murdoch
#73. He did not feel guilty. He did not feel. The rock was a solidification of his feeling, his conscience, his sense of reality, his self-knowledge.
Nathanael West
#74. 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
#75. With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble.
Ashish Patel
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