guilt Quotes

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.