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  • So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

    Running   What If   Three  
  • A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

    Funny   Life   Failure  
    "Le Siecle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV)". Book by Voltaire (Chapter VI), 1751.
  • A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

    Stars   Winning   Awards  
  • Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

    Hate   War   Wish  
  • A guilty conscience never feels secure.

    Guilt   Feels   Secure  
  • There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

  • Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!

    Heart   Guilt   Tears  
    Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.262, University of Illinois Press
  • Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

    Men   Wicked   Speak  
  • Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

    Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.165, Heinemann
  • I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group
  • There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.

    Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.204
  • No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

    Long   Guilt   Forgotten  
    "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.
  • A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

    Art   Hipster   Needs  
    Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”
  • The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The

    Heart   Soul   Mind  
  • A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

  • An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

    Hair   Mouths   Uneasy  
    Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.14, Courier Corporation
  • I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136
  • I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

    Giving   Wish   Cinema  
  • Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

    Dirty   Practice   Play  
    Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?” “Um, I wasn’t aware that it did. Perhaps you have a guilty conscience.” “Charley.” “Is there something you need to get off your chest? Besides that skank I saw you with the other day?

    Uncles   Skanks   Mouths  
    Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.100, Macmillan
  • How tedious is a guilty conscience!

    John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.181, Manchester University Press
  • Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

    John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.52
  • White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so much dirt to Black people - their guilty conscience tells them to be afraid. When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.

    Fighting   Gun   Thinking  
  • The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

    Hate   Doors   Self  
  • Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

    Guilt   Way   Persons  
    Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”
  • Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

    Lying   Memorable   Mind  
    'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11
  • Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

    George Sewell (1719). “The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh. [In Five Acts and in Verse.]”, p.4
  • If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

    Mother   Children   Guilt  
  • There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.

    Dark   Men   Years  
  • Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?

    Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.310, Hachette UK
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