Self-Accusation Quotes

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others.

A confession is wholly and incontestably voluntary only if a guilty person gives himself up to the law and becomes his own accuser.

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.

Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use

I prefer to be accused unjustly, for then I have nothing to reproach myself with, and joyfully offer this to the good Lord. Then I humble myself at the thought that I am indeed capable of doing the thing of which I have been accused.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.

The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.

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

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Men do not want to believe their own times are wicked, partly because it involves too much self-accusation and principally because they have no standards outside of themselves by which to measure their times.

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

Guilt hath very quick ears to an accusation.

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

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.