Your Guilty Conscience Quotes

#1. If the truth scares you, know that it is your guilty conscience reacting to Truth.

Billy Graham

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Guilt keeps people imprisoned in themselves.

Iris Murdoch

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. With every rise in choices, the expectations double up which puts people deeper down into the rubble.

Ashish Patel

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...

Tove Jansson

#11. A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

#12. A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Jakob Dylan

#13. A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground.

L. Quick

#14. Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

John Tillotson

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. And it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time.

Saint-John Perse

#18. I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

Albert Einstein

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Guilt cannot change you; it can only hint that there's something worth your effort to change.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#25. Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don't make a u-turn.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in.

Henry James

#27. 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

#28. Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#29. If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#30. 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

#31. There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

Eric Hoffer

#32. A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.

John R.W. Stott

#33. He (John Puller) wanted to intimidate. Intimidated people with a guilty conscience often made mistakes.

David Baldacci

#34. If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Max Frisch

#35. 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

#36. Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Buchi Emecheta

#37. I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Charles Spurgeon

#38. A man in loss is not a man to trust.

Auliq Ice

#39. Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening.

Martina Boone

#40. Guilt doesn't stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.

Nityananda Das

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. A guilty conscience never feels secure.

Publilius Syrus

#44. Guilty conscience is the number one liar and the producer of suspicion.

ABC

#45. A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#46. 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