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“guilt is a rope that wears thin” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“the breach which guilt has once made into the human soul is never, in this mortal state, repaired.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
“Blushes are the sign of guilt; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“the man was clearly guilty. You could tell just by looking at him. Not, perhaps, guilty of anything specific. Just guilty in general terms.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But the greater the difficulty, the greater the glory; for no occasion arises that can excuse a man for being guilty of injustice.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression” Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Perhaps it was more painful to think of a guilty man than of a dead man.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a...” John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, Cloquet thought, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.” Woody Allen, Side Effects
“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“It is an heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in't.” William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.” William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon
“It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so.” Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles
“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer.” William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3
“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three men, and of these three two were priests.” Voltaire, Candide
“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?” William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“For such defects, and not for other guilt, Lost are we and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Hence, also, we are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature; it only appears with the motives, and only in time do the motives appear in knowledge.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

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