Martin Cruz Smith Quotes

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back.

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

I don't like the feeling of 'I didn't do enough.'

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

I have a natural instinct to feel guilty and that I've let people down. I've apologized in more songs than 'Back to the Shack.' Going back to our second record, the closing lines are 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.' It's definitely part of my personality.

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.

Please forgive my honest mistake

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

I was never cut out to be a mother - I was no good.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

It's hard when you let people down.

I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.

Boy, I feel more and more undeserving each moment !!

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.