Guilty Conscience Quotes: Provoking Thoughts and Introspection

A guilty conscience needs no accuser. – English Proverb

The guiltier the conscience, the louder the mouth. – Filipino Proverb

A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory. – Mark Twain

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion to death. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. – French Proverb

Guilt is the thief of joy. – Theodore Roosevelt

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. – Carolyn Wells

One’s conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. – Steven Wright

Guilt is always hungry, don’t let it consume you. – Terri Guillemets

A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder. – English Proverb

Guilt is a destructive and ultimately pointless emotion. – Lynn Crilly

The torch of doubt and chaos is what the guilty man most fears. – Agatha Christie

The curse of the guilty is the ghost of innocence. – Amit Abraham

A moment of patience in a moment of anger prevents a thousand moments of regret. – Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Your guilt will be your past and that will be your God. – Douglas Coupland

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it. – Bishop Robert South

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking. – H.L. Mencken

With a clean conscience our dreams would become reality. – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Guilt is a rope that wears thin. – Ayn Rand

A guilty conscience needs no accuser. – Unknown

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. – Elizabeth I

Guilt is a rope that wears thin. – Ayn Rand

Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. – Nicholas Rowe

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. – French Proverb

The guilt of a lifetime can be wiped out in a moment of extraordinary bravery. – Orson Scott Card

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. – John Calvin

No man can hide from his fears; as they are a part of him, they will always know where he is hiding. – Roger Zelazny

There are no permanent lifeboats in the ocean of guilt. Only temporary ones made of paper. – Akash Verma

Guilt can either hold you back from growth or it can show you what you need to shift in your life. – Jenai Lane

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. – Plautus

Our guilt has its uses. It fosters the fiction of our self-improvement. – Mason Cooley

Guilt is the total sum of: All the negative feelings we have ever had about ourselves! Any form of self-hatred, self-rejection, feelings of worthlessness, sinfulness, inferiority, incompetence, failure, or emptiness. The feeling that there are things in us that are lacking or missing or incomplete. – Kenneth Wapnick

Guilt is to the spirit, what pain is to the body. – Elder David A. Bednar

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. – Honore de Balzac

Guilt is a useless feeling. It’s never enough to make you change direction – only enough to make you useless. – Daniel Nayeri

Guilt is a blight upon the land – the poison that kills the plant. You will not grow through guilt, but only shrivel and die. – Anthony De Mello

Guilt is the hilt of the knife that we use on ourselves, and love is often the blade; but it’s worry that keeps the knife turning. – Elizabeth George.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. – Coco Chanel.

A moment of guilt praying for a lifetime of happiness won’t make you happy. You’re a cheat. First, to yourself. – Savi Sharma.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

With a guilty conscience, every sound seems a reproach.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

A guilty conscience is the hardest accuser.

Guilt is the source of sorrow, ’tis the fiend.

Guilt is only a ghost watching you from your past.

Even the innocent carry the weight of a guilty conscience.

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot.

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

Guilt is a useless feeling. It’s never enough to make you change direction?only enough to make you useless.

There’s no torment like a guilty conscience.

The guilt you feel is but your soul returning to the place of the crime.

To walk with a guilty conscience is to walk in the shackles of your own wrongdoing.

Guilt is the hound that attends to the steps of a troubled conscience.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

A heavy guilt upon a weary heart weighs more than any physical burden.

The stab of conscience is akin to the gnaw of a relentless worm.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Suspicion always haunts a guilty mind.