The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.
Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.