Guilty Conscience Quotes Quotes

“It is easier to fight an army than to fight your conscience.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The past is an annoying critic whose loud tirade of accusatory declamations detracts me from experiencing happiness. Loitering within the craggy shadows of my lithograph identification apparatus is the splayed viscera from the blood-soaked entrails of an egotistical self’s riddled history. The unbidden past tugs at my sleeves similar to a persistent tramp demanding an attentive accounting. A disgraced personal self refuses to release its despotic hold upon my guilt-ridden psyche without exacting a sacrificial tithing. Strewn wreckage from my history of scandalous debacles cast a pall of shame over the present. The shambles of my disreputable past stifles my present desire to celebrate in the rudimentary grandeur of living robustly. With the past snarling its reproach, my mind is preoccupied with ugly thoughts, and every day reduced to a tiresome and worrisome filled existence that halts my progress towards achieving an envisaged life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know”
― Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji

“Guilt is a control program that causes laziness, postponement, and reincarnation. Sin is a lie. The idea that a bleeding man can take away your bad behavior is a massive lie that NEEDS TO STOP.

Own your behavior. Grow up. Apologize. Apologizing is a form of dissolving “sin” and an initiation into adulthood. This is emotional intelligence.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“People can make you feel guilty only if you allow them to.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“An exaggeration of hurt enhances the defaulter’s guilt.”
― BS Murthy

“And if the guilt didn’t kill you—the regret would eat you alive.”
― Laura C. Reden, Haunted Waters