Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Ayn Rand

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Juvenal

Every vice makes its guilt the more conspicuous in proportion to the rank of the offender. [Lat., Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur.]

C. S. Lewis

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

Jane Austen

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Brent Weeks

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

John Grisham

We didn't want to leave. You feel guilty because you can hop on a plane and come back home where everything works and everything is standing,

Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

Ann Marie Buerkle

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

Anne Spencer

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Anne Rice

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

Anais Nin

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

Robert A. Heinlein

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Susan Cheever

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

Simon Cowell

So I would only feel guilt if I misled somebody who was terrible.

Sebastian Thrun

Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

Rajneesh

Encounter every situation with your total consciousness, without any guilt. Enjoy music, enjoy food, enjoy love - enjoy everything that is natural.

Norm MacDonald

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

John Webster

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

John Steinbeck

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

John Steinbeck

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

Max Lucado

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Max Frisch

Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.

Matthew Henry

He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

Maxim Gorky

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

Plautus

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

John Suckling

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

Penelope Leach

Guilt is the most destructive of all emotions. It mourns what has been while playing no part in what may be, now or in the future.

Paulo Coelho

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

Marianne Moore

What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe.

Miranda Kerr

I treat myself occasionally and don't have any guilt or conditions placed on it.

Mason Cooley

Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

Mason Cooley

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.