quotations about guilt
Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it; their own frauds, their crimes, their remembrances of the past, their terrors of the future are ever present to their minds.
CICERO
Three Books of Offices: Or Moral Duties
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
HANNAH ARENDT
Eichmann in Jerusalem
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guild is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
R. D. LAING
Self and Others
A guilty system recognizes no innocents.
IAIN M. BANKS
The Player of Games