The following collection contains 50 of the most remarkable sayings and quotes about guilt to help you to feel less guilty.
You are only guilty if you have purposefully harmed someone. Do not feel guilty if you have not done so!
Have you done something criminal? Or something that could be considered criminal? If not, do not feel guilty, and pay no heed to people who try to make you feel guilty!
The quotes are sorted chronologically by birth date of the originator and provide a wide picture of the perception of guilt and dealing with it over the centuries.
Hope the collection helps you to get over your unjust feeling of guilt!
A god implants in mortal guilt
whenever he wants
utterly to confound a house.
Aeschylus
Nothing is more wretched
than the mind of a man
conscious of guilt.
Plautus
Rather leave the crime
of the guilty unpunished
than condemn the innocent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist)
He who flees from trial
confesses his guilt.
Syrus
Every guilty person
is his own hangman.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
statesman, dramatist)
He is not guilty
who is not guilty
of his own free will.
Seneca the Younger
statesman, dramatist, and humorist)
Repentant tears wash out
the stain of guilt.
Saint Augustine
Guilt is anything
you did and fear
others to know about.
Mohammad
The guilty think
all talk is
of themselves.
Geoffrey Chaucer
One threatens the innocent
who spares the guilty.
Edward Coke
