Richard Russo Quotes

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

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

It's hard when you let people down.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

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

No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.

I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

I let the American people down.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.

I feel I let everyone British sport, British boxing, my community, my home town of Manchester, my family my kids, I feel I've let everyone down with the troubles I've been in.

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

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

I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

I was stained by failure.

Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.

Being guilty tends to engender feelings of guilt.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?" (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)

I never know which is worse: the sorrow when you hit the bird or the shame when you miss it.