Guilt and fear are so intertwined that they cannot be separated. Love and guilt cannot exist simultaneously any more than love and fear can.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

fear is born of duality —

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

Guilt is often an emotion we carry from childhood and then project onto current circumstances when we felt as though we were burdens to those around us.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt,

No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I could not know, Whether I suffered, or I did: For all seemed guilt, remorse or woe, My own or others still the same Life-stifling fear, soul-stifling shame!

It’s not a feeling of guilt. It’s a feeling of ‘discovered ignorance'

Fear. It's unacknowledged; shared by friend and foe if nothing else is.

Guilt. It's this mechanism we use to control people. It's an illusion. It's a kind of social control mechanism and it's very unhealthy. It does terrible things to our body.