Andre Aciman Quotes

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

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

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.

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.

Decree of Self-Reproach

I did a lot of things I regret.

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

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

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

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

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

Doubt is the brother of shame.

I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.

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

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

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

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

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I feel bad for everyone I've gone out with.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

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

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

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.