John Dryden Quotes

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

O, my past years in Rangoon are spectres to haunt my soul; and they seem to laugh at me as they shake the chains they have riveted on me.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

I'm ashamed of what I did.

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

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Conscience, the executioner, shaking her secret scourge.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.