Donald Sterling Quotes

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

I'm ashamed of what I did.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

I let the American people down.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

I carry lots of guilt.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

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?

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

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

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

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

I always feel guilty later if I behave rudely with anyone.

The one feeling that settled in and stayed there for a long while, and I still deal with, is guilt. I was there. I was a part of it. Why does it have to be like this? Was I responsible? Was I the reason Dale was in that position? I'd ask myself that question and look around at people and wonder if they were thinking that, too.

It's hard when you let people down.

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.