Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

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

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

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.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.

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

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

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

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

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.

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.