Hosea Ballou Quotes

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

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.

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

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

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

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

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

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.

High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave!

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

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

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

I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.

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.

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

I carry lots of guilt.