I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 9. Victor after Justine’s execution.
Monsters come in many forms. You know the greatest monster of them all? Guilt. – Dr. Leonard McCoy Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Obsession’.
Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having? – George Ryan
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. – Hannah Arendt
I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was. – Hedy Lamarr
With a parent, it’s always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here. – Heather Locklear
To have guilt you’ve got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don’t feel the guilt you ought to have. And that’s what The Firebombing is about. – James Dickey
It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be. – Joel Osteen
Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it’s front-page news. I feel guilt. – Jose Antonio Vargas
The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies – which is part guilt and part warmth – and the Booker Prize isn’t an essential part of that, but it is part of that. – Jim Crace
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us? – Joel Edgerton
There’s Catholic guilt about things, then there’s the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you’re not really allowed to enjoy them. – Jack White
I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn’t feel wrong, I didn’t feel right! – Joyce Meyer
I find that people… very few people think that what they’re doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they’re doing is bad it has more to do with guilt. – Jon Favreau
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest. – Jonathan Kozol
I can’t even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It’s a nightmare. – John Mayer
I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I’m wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else. – Bryan Cogman