Gordon Getty Quotes

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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.

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

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.

I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life.

There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

Well the truth is, Santino didn't beat me, because I beat myself.

I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.

I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

I think it's harder to forgive ourselves for mistakes that we made because we keep dwelling on it. We want to know how it affects other people, if they liked us for it, if they didn't like us. I think we stress over it, we replay it in our mind. It becomes an old tape that years later we continue to play it in our mind.

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

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

I was probably spoilt, if I'm being totally honest.

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

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

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.