Dar Williams Quotes

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.

There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I'm kind of known for something that's not so great to be known for.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

I hate the past - especially my own past.

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away.

I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I don't think I will ever be able to forgive myself for what I have done.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

As in the infirmity of human nature, no man's actions are always what he likes to look back upon, as there are points in which he would wish that he had acted otherwise; so every man who tells his own story is under a temptation more or less to disguise the truth; and the more in proportion as his actions have been upon a larger scale, and his faults or mistakes therefore have been more flagrant.

When I wake up in night sweats, that's what I'm thinking about: what if someone grabs me from my past and says, 'I heard you drag me to filth on your podcast.'

I have a recurring dream where I'm on the run for a horrible thing I did years and years ago. Like, in the dream... because the thing I did was so long ago that it's just a faint memory in my dream, so I'm sort of remembering it as I'm on the run from the police. And I'm totally guilty of it.

We all have things we're ashamed of.

It's not always enjoyable to go back and look at things in your life. Things that you're not proud of, you definitely don't want to confront; dark times that you've already gotten over.