Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
There are those who believe in my innocence and those who believe in my guilt. There is no in-between.
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
I'm not sure that Jesuits ever produce faithful Catholics. Because they're too fierce. It is Sturm und Drang, and it is guilt - it is all that battlefield stuff.
I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.
I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.