Henry Fielding Quotes

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

I carry lots of guilt.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

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

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

I feel terrible about it. Part of it is the horror of what happened and part of it is my guilt about being a part of it.

Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.

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!

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

I live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.

I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous. God forgive me, for I have sinned.

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

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.