Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt. screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME.
Unknown
It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.
Johann Von Schiller
Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven!
Sir Walter Scott
However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt; And this they knew and felt, at least the one, The leader of the hand he had undone,-- Who, born for better things, had madly set His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.
Unknown
Guilt is the source of sorrow, 'tis the fiend, Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind, With whips and stings
Nicholas Rowe
Guilt is abscent when the act is justified
Unknown
Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back.
Jane Adams
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.
Tryon Edwards
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong
Tryon Edwards
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
Plautus
Those who guilt stains it equals.
Lucanus