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Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed (Quote by - Cicero)

The guilty think all talk is of themselves (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)

The mind of guilt is full of scorpions. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide. (Quote by - George Sand)

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. (Quote by - R D Laing)

The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guilt increases. (Quote by - Johann Christoph)

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. (Quote by - Anna Sewell)

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. (Quote by - Julia Louis-Dreyfus)

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to And I have felt this way ever since all this success started. (Quote by - Jim Carrey)

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals. (Quote by - Roger McGough)

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. (Quote by - John Clayton)

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. (Quote by - And that's what The Firebombing is about. (Quote by - James Dickey)

I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively (Quote by - Michael Jackson)

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. (Quote by - V S Pritchett)

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica. (Quote by - Frederic William Farrar)

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death (Quote by - Coco Chanel)

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. (Quote by - Edna O'Brien)

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. (Quote by - Martha Beck)

You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it. (Quote by - Clive Barker)

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! (Quote by - Ovid)

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. (Quote by - Ben Hecht)

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