If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn't enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

For those constantly full of joy, they sometimes feel a little guilty for always feeling so good. That guilt is compassion: it flies in with an attempt to share one's joy with others who do not have it.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.-

My mother could make anybody feel guilty. She used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know.

I've got enough guilt to start my own religion.

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.

The guilty think all talk is of themselves.

We are all exceptional cases... Each man insists on being innocent, even if it means accusing the whole human race, and heaven.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.