Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.

There were eleven votes for "guilty." It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first.

I don't believe in a lot of baggage. It's such a nuisance. Life's too short to fuss with it. And it isn't really necessary

Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless.

It was a great fucking time, the short era of disaster euphoria, for nothing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said firmly.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?

Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind.

Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.