False Guilt Quotes

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people are being found guilty and the real criminals are wandering the streets.

I am a person who feels guilty for crimes I have not committed, or have not committed in years. The police search the train station for a serial rapist and I cover my face with a newspaper, wondering if maybe I did it in my sleep. The last thing I stole was an eight-track tape, but to this day I'm unable to enter a store without feeling like a shoplifter. It's all the anxiety with none of the free stuff.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

If you don't stop apologizing, you're going to convince me you've done something wrong.

Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

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.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.