Joe Thomas Quotes

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

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 live in a puddle of guilt, an ocean of guilt that you want your own time.

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it.

I feel bad for everyone I've gone out with.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

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

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.

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

I think I'm designed to regret everything.

I've done dumb things.

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

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.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

I'm ashamed of what I did.