Dar Williams Quotes

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

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.

Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not. He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

Everyone performs bad actions... A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions.

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

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.

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

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

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

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

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.