Guilt and Conscience Quotes in Macbeth

Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds / To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.

He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause / Within the belt of rule.

I have almost forgot the taste of fears. / The time has been, my senses would have cool’d / To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair / Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir / As life were in’t. I have supp’d full with horrors; / Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, / Cannot once start me.

I ’gin to be aweary of the sun, / And wish th’ estate o’ th’ world were now undone.—

She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word.

A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, / And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, / Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature / Gives way to in repose!

Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done’t.—

But this place is too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further: I had thought to have let in some of all professions, that go the primrose way to th' everlasting bonfire.

Strange things I have in head, that will to hand, / Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d.