Guilty Quotes

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The influence of sin touches the innocent as well as the guilty.

~ Billy Graham

There's Nothing To Hide When Your Soul Is Not Guilty....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

To the rich, the really poor don't know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they don't need your sympathy, and you should not feel guilty, just teach them how to fish.

~ Peter Ojo

Lucas heard a strange sound, something he hadn’t heard in months. At first it didn’t seem real, it was something distant from the past. It was the first time in nearly a year he had heard himself laugh, and it momentarily stunned him

~ Mark A. Cooper

PERMALINK · 169465 · 15 HOURS AGOShe tried to feel sad, or guilty, or even to be angry about the way things had happened, but there frankly wasn’t much room in either her head or her heart for wishing or moping.

~ Megan Hart

Angry is always hungry to cook guilty.

~ Prabakaran Thirumalai

If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me. But if I have committed a crime, every circumstance of the case is changed. Moral justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose justice to do this, is to destroy the principle of its existence, which is the thing itself. It is then no longer justice. It is indiscriminate revenge.

~ Thomas Paine

Certainly not the way someone will have told you the same thing yesterday, made you feel alternately - simultaneously - angry and guilty, guilty because complicit because flattered, therefore unfairly angry.

~ Jennifer Clarvoe

That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.

~ Nelson Algren

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

~ Robin Hobb

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

~ Sigmund Freud

I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Whatever criticism we may have for Jonah, at least it can be said that Jonah was consistent. This legalistic, over-judgmental, young prophet will consistently proscribe the most severe form of punishment for the guilty--even when the guilty party is himself. The young Jonah hijacks written Torah to condemn everyone--even himself.

~ Michael Ben Zehabe

In all the interviews I have done, I cannot remember one offender who did not admit privately to more victims than those for whom he had been caught. On the contrary, most offenders had been charged with and/or convicted of from one to three victims. In the interviews I have done, they have admitted to roughly 10 to 1,250 victims. What was truly frightening was that all the offenders had been reported before by children, and the reports had been ignored.

~ Anna C. Salter

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

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

rip the prisonsopenput theconvictsontelevision

~ Norman Mailer

She is shocked by the rows of thick Plexiglas windows, each equipped with a telephone, each with a prisoner on one side and an outsider on the other. There is a teenage girl chatting with a prisoner who is presumably her father. There’s a married couple talking to their daughter. There’s a woman with a baby in her arms, sobbing into her phone as she begs her husband not to plead guilty for his crimes. Jail is terrifying to Geraldine, not only because it’s a house of criminals but also because it’s a cold slap in the face, a reminder of where she will eventually end up. “You’ve got to stay with me the whole time, Callo! I’m serious, you CANNOT leave me here.”“I’ll never,” Callo vows, but he’s eyeing her strangely. “Just remember which side of the glass you’re on right now, Geraldine.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Well, if my crime is love, then I am indeed guilty

~ Elise Kova

In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.

~ Emily Thorne

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its horrors, I have, by raising myself to affluence, lost everything that could make it a blessing.

~ Jane Austen

But nowadays I feel guilty that I am granted the immunity of the artistically gifted, having never actually achieved anything to prove myself worthy.

~ Sara Baume

In Revenge, as in life, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the end the guilty always fall.

~ Emily Thorne

I could see it all. The hand on the shoulder, then the hug. The mouths that find each other through the tears, the moment when guilt and the certainty that things must go no further gives way to lust and the certainty that they cannot stop.

~ S.j. Watson

When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty.

~ Toba Beta

It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.

~ J.b. Albano

Even if their guilt actually does produce a good action, it will be the saddest good action you’ll ever see, and it will be of no use to them because their goal is not to obey, but to feel less guilty, thus nothing about their souls will be reshaped.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don’t feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they’re stuck right where they started: Guilty.

~ Geoffrey Wood

Humanity has always had a flair for guilt by association.

~ Seanan Mcguire

I love you guilty. It makes it easier for me to wrap you around my finger.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Guilt wears track shoes. Sprint, marathon, or cross-country, it doesn’t matter. It runs tireless to catch you, and it carries a sledgehammer.

~ Jamie Mason

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

~ Holly Black

In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself.

~ Sarah J. Maas

This is not a guilty pleasure of mine, simply because I don't believe in guilty pleasures. Snobbery is just the public face of insecurity.

~ James Kakalios

Victims”, by definition, are those that have just experienced a trauma of some sort. They are going through an entire array of emotions and circumstances that are happening to them internally and/or externally. They are trying to wrap their mind around what just happened to them. They are trying to regain some sort of balance in their mind. They feel violated, cheated, confused, scared, insecure, ashamed, guilty, impotent and at a loss for words/actions/thoughts. Many times, they even feel numb and in shock. Their mind is in a state of crisis and chaos. They are in the “victim stage”. They are truly a “victim” by definition.

~ Melisa Mel

If guilt can cause heartache, then I've definitely experienced it. Seeing Ivy hunched over and crying for probably the first time in her really long life is making me feel like the worst person in the world. With her tears streaked face in her hands, she looks so fragile, vulnerable, and human. I come forwards and give her a hug.

~ Colleen Boyd

In 2011 in Swansea, Wales, Colin Batley was found guilty of 35 charges relating to his role as the leader of a 'satanic cult' that sexually abused children and women, manufactured child abuse images and forced children and women into prostitution (de Bruxelles 2011).His partner and two other women were also convicted on related charges, with one man convicted of paying to abuse a victim of the group. The groups' ritualistic activities were based on the doctrine of Aleister Crowley, an occult figure whose writing includes references to ritual sex with children. Crowley's literature has been widely linked to the practice of ritualistic abuse by survivors and their advocates, who in turn have been accused by occult groups of religious persecution. During Batley's trial, the prosecution claimed that Crowley's writings formed the basis of Batley's organisation and he read from a copy of it during sexually abusive incidents. It seems that alternative as well as mainstream religious traditions can be misused by sexually abusive groups. p38

~ Michael Salter

She knew there were words so terrible you heard them with your whole body. Guilty. And there were voices to say them. She knew there were people you might almost trust who would hear them, too, and be amazed, and still not really hear them because they know they were not the ones the words were spoken to.

~ Marilynne Robinson

As the man left and became gone the fault wailed after him, heartbroken. Yelling back at him all the ways he and it belonged to one another.

~ Rosca Marx