Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.

I just like stories about redemption about getting a second chance at life, I think everyone in the world has a few major mistakes they've made in there lives and if they could just go back and correct it... but, unfortunately they don't get a chance usually it's almost impossible.

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.

At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I truly don't believe in regret.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.