Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

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!

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

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

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

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

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

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

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

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

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

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.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

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

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

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.