Virginia Euwer Wolff Quotes

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

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.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

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.

Decree of Self-Reproach

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

I act the way I act and I'm not proud of it.

Listen, not all of us are proud of what we say or do at times.

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

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.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

There's so much guilt there attached to having a perfectly good life.

Regrets? I think everyone has regrets, and people who say they haven't are either liars... or narcissists.

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

If I do something stupid, which is pretty much the whole time, I hate it. I just hate it.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

I was not really as good as I should have been.

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

I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know.

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up.

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.