GUILT QUOTES IV

quotations about guilt

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.

DANIEL NAVERI

Another Faust


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

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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

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A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

IAIN M. BANKS

The Player of Games

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