1. Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action.-Audre Lorde
2. Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.-Tom Hodgkinson
3. Guilt is a useless feeling. It’s never enough to make you change direction–only enough to make you useless.-Daniel Nayeri
4. Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion.-Lynn Crilly
5. No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.-Stefan Zweig
6. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn’t do.-Voltaire
7. Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.-Horace Bushnell
8. Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
9. Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.-Isabelle Holland
10. Guilt is a rope that wears thin.-Ayn Rand
11. Successful guilt is the bane of society.-Publilius Syrus
12. He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.-Proverb
13. Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.-Erma Bombeck
14. Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.-John Flavel
15. He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.-Charles James Fox
16. Guilt alone, like brain-sick frenzy in its feverish mood, fills the light air with visionary terrors, and shapeless forms of fear.-Junius
17. Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.-Bishop Robert South
18. Guilt is always hungry, don’t let it consume you.-Terri Guillemets
19. Guilt is oftentimes the strongest witness against itself.-Edward Counsel
20. The guilt you feel finally comes to an end when you fully express how it came into your consciousness.-Luke Garne
21. Guilt is the sum total of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves!
Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete.-Ken Wapnick
22. What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach–I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.-Nathaniel Branden
23. Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace with our conscience. Without conscience there would be no morality. So we can greet guilt cordially and with acceptance, just as we do all other emotions. After we respond to guilt, it has done its job and we can release it.-Glenn R. Schiraldi
24. Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.-Henry Fielding
25. Guilt is something small people feel when they run out of excuses for their behavior.-Gaius Baltar
26. Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.-Saint Augustine
27. Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn’t.-Alan Cohen
28. Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.-William Congreve
29. Where guilt is, rage and courage doth abound.-Ben Jonson