Jake LaMotta Quotes

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

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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

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

I should have worked harder in my life. I suffer from a guilt complex.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

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 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.

[Characterizing William Randolph Hearst:] ... a moral pervert, a political degenerate.

falsa, impia, scandalosa

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

I'm consumed with what I didn't do. I know I should've come out sooner, and I'm sorry for that.

A 'Clean Bandit' is a total bastard!

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

I'm a bad person.

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.

What a way to pay a man back for helping you. Gah, I suck as a human being.’ (Shahara)

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.