Guilty Quotes

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done.”
― Turcois Ominek

“What do you think they're going to do to us when they find us guilty?" she says after a few minutes of silence have passed.
"Honestly?"
"Does now seem like the time for honesty?"
I look at her from the corner of my eye. "I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

“She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced my way, I couldn't help but feel guilty, even though I hadn't done anything wrong.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men. Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“Lucas heard a strange sound, something he hadn’t heard in months. At first it didn’t seem real, it was something distant from the past. It was the first time in nearly a year he had heard himself laugh, and it momentarily stunned him”
― Mark A. Cooper, The Edelweiss Express

“When hatred judges, the verdict is just guilty.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.”
― Emily Thorne

“It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

“When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Do you ever feel guilty?” she asked, clutching a flower to her chest.

“Yes,” I replied. “But only because it has taken me so long to realize who I am and what truly stirs my heart.”
― Michael Faudet, Smoke & Mirrors

“Dare my guilty heart admit the horrible acknowledgement that I love you still?”
― Charlotte Dacre , Zofloya

“The guilty are always the most prone to establish complementary guilt, and the most unforgiving thereafter.”
― Tanith Lee, Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer

“It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.”
― J.B. Albano

“Don’t feel guilty for a crime you have not committed – commit it and be guilt free”
― Amit Abraham

“Providing adequate representation even for defendants who appear guilty is the best way to protect those who are not.”
― Deborah L Rhode

“Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Quest

“Captain, you have heard the charges. How do you plead? Before you answer, you should know that if you plead "guilty" you'll be immediately extradited and U.N.S. law will take over."

"Not guilty."

"Also, it's not very nice to lie in court."

"But it beats extradition.”
― Howard Tayler, Emperor Pius Dei

“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.

How many times do we pay for one mistake?

The answer is thousands of times. The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay once for every mistake they make. But not us, we have a powerful memory.

We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty and we punish ourselves.

If justice exists then that was enough. We do not need to do it again. But every time we remember, we judge ourselves again, we are guilty again, and we punish ourselves again and again and again.

If we have a wife or husband, he or she also reminds us of the mistake so we can judge ourselves again, punish ourselves again, and find ourselves guilty again. Is this fair?

How many times do we make our spouse, our children, or our parents pay for the same mistake? Every time we remember the mistake, we blame them again and send them all the emotional poison we feel at the injustice. And then we make them pay again for the same mistake. Is that justice?”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“Memory is most fickle among the guilty. Fine, no one steps forward, no one lives!”
― H.S. Crow, Lunora: A Book of Sand

“She was better off not knowing him. But he was enough of a bastard to hate that she'd forgotten.

Even if it was his fault she'd lost her memoires.

Jacks had thought Time would take something from him. He hadn't thought it would take it from her.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“Webster defines the word forgive as to absolve from guilt. Guilt means responsibility. So whenever we say we forgive someone, we're saying that we believe that person to be responsible for our pain and that by our 'divine goodness' we're going to forgive him. If you understand this, then in order to forgive we have to have judged the other person and declared him guilty - i.e., responsible for our unhappiness. Only then can we decide whether we want to pardon him.”
― Chris Linnares, Cinderella on the Couch

“That's him," said Berthold. "Cut my arm off. With an ax"

Sneep turned to Jinx. "That true?"

"Yes," said Jinx. "But he--"

"Guilty," said Sneep.”
― Sage Blackwood, Jinx's Fire

“Every time I faced a judge, I went in with a sense of impending doom. They always told me, “You’re innocent until proven guilty,” but I knew that was a bunch of rubbish. I wasn’t innocent, period. It didn’t matter what I told myself or how I justified my actions, I wouldn’t be there if I was innocent.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict��s journey to finding purpose

“When the eternal God looked at my record and said, “Michael is found guilty, the penalty of his crimes is death and his crimes must be paid for in hell,” Jesus didn’t just sit there pleading for my forgiveness saying, “Please forgive Michael. Please have mercy on him.” No, He made a case for me and got a verdict on my behalf. He took the penalty on Himself and fulfilled everything that the law required.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I like the rain. It makes me feel less guilty for huddling inside, away from everything and everyone else. I’m sure if I said that to someone, they’d think it’s weird.”
― Elizabeth Helen, Bonded by Thorns