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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt
There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.
The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.
There's no guilt in eating fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.
He wished he could relieve himself of his doubts and guilts half as easily.
We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.
Shine without guilt. Modesty was invented by the mediocres who think you should be the same as them.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.
My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.
I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.
Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use
Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale.
Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.
But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one; All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.
Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.
Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.
If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?
To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.
A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
Where, where for shelter shall the guilty fly, When consternation turns the good man pale?
Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.
Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.