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
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