Susan Smith Quotes

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

I always thought I should have been a better mother.

I've created such a monster.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Decree of Self-Reproach

I made some really bad decisions, and I turned a lot of work down and kind of got lost in life.

Why did I choose to be a goalkeeper? I don't know - it is good question. I have asked myself many times when things have not being going well.

i hate not knowing what i did." _Eric

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont. Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything. She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont again.

I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure.

The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me.

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.

If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.

There’s got to be something wrong with us. To do what we did.