#Guilt Quotes

“Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.”

“O wretched state! o bosom black as death!”

“My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent.”

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!”

“Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!”

“Tremble, thou wretch,That hast within thee undivulged crimesUnwhipped of justice.”

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”

“I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.”

“Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,Chief nourisher in life's feast...”

“Though inclination be as sharp as will,My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,And, like a man to double business bound,I stand in pause where I shall first begin,And both neglect.”

“They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.”

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”

“The mind of guilt is full of scorpions.”

“I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.”

“Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”

“Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung.”

“The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.”

“I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.”

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!”

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

“Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!”

“Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.”

“O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!”

“Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use”

“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”

“O shame, where is thy blush?”

“You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!”

“I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.”

“With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.”

“A little water clears us of this deed.”

“Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.”

“I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no.”

“When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.”

“You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.”

“Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past”

“Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.”

“Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.”

“Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books.”

“The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty or judgmental about any other time, the better I feel about the quality of my work.”

“Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.”

“A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.”

“Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe”

“I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.The secret mischiefs that I set abroachI lay unto the grievous charge of others.”

“Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.”

“How could passion run so deepHad I never thoughtThat the crime of being bornBlackens all our lot?”

“Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

“A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed.”

“How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.”