Stefan Zweig Quotes

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.

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.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

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

Guilt's a terrible thing.

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

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

I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste.

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.

You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

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

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!