Steve Martin Quotes

I am aware that I have caused you pain and anguish, but I think you will allow me to take my decision.

I am guilty of one thing - that I should have cleared out and not had anything to do with these criminals in the first place. Later it was too late. I was in up to my neck. But as for the atrocities, I had not a thing to do with them…

I screwed up my life. I screwed up my kids' lives.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing.

...five minutes from now, when everything else had dropped away and I realized the full impact of what I’d done, I’d feel my heart breaking.

So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

When he spoke, the roughness was gone from his voice. "I could tell you I did it. That's what you wanna hear. I could tell you she did it to herself, but both ways I'd be lying. It was you who did it, Lily. You didn't mean it, but it was you.

Cheating is bad. That's a big mistake I've made, and I've really hurt people. I've never lied about it, though. I've always been honest.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

To have lied is to have suffered.

You can't blame anyone else... You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices. He knew this. That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what we'd done behind us. He couldn't do it. He couldn't shoulder the weight." - Philip Adler

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma

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

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

I wear the chains I forged in life.

At the core of these movies, Saw One and Saw Two, it's a very real situation. A guy cheats on his wife and didn't value what he had. It's the same thing in my story. Being a dad and playing someone whose last words to his son were 'go to hell'. I say to my son, the last thing I say is 'I love you'.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

I suppose in the end it's almost too easy to look back and say what you should have done, how you might have changed things. What's harder - what's much, much harder - is to accept what you actually did do.

Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.

I suppose I’m the one responsible for destroying myself.