Anthony Trollope Quotes

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

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn't say or do and wish we could take it back.

I felt like I did lots of crappy work in the past. I can't even tell.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

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.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

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.

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.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't 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.

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

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

I don't like the feeling of 'I didn't do enough.'

I have no problems with failures, I'm afraid of failing within myself. At times when I know I did something wrong, I don't sleep that night. I'm scared of facing myself.

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

When I get out, I get annoyed with myself.

Sometimes I've said things that I shouldn't have.

Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.