Arnold Rothstein Quotes

I've created such a monster.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

‎It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.

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

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

I'm ashamed of what I did.

I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?

I should have done more. I did too little of everything.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

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

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

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

I let the American people down.

I don't know why I did it.

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

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

I carry lots of guilt.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.