Elliot Perlman Quotes

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is that you do it to yourself, Just you and no one else, You do it to yourself...

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! - there is the sting of life!

The only person I have hurt is myself.

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.