Sorry Quotes
130 quotes
"I’ve always felt that the best place to hide a body is in the trunk of a cop car, with a note affixed to the body that reads, “I’m sorry."
"Chocolate says "I'm sorry"so much better than words."
"There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for."
"I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid."
"There’s truth in only having a bicycle seat. I used to skip class and just hold it out in the hallway. When teachers would ask me what I was doing, I’d hold it up and say, “Sorry I’m late."
"Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers."
"I asked myself only when he needed my help, "How will the broken heal the wounded?"
"Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words."
"..."SORRY."...Just doesn't cut it anymore!"
"We have to do it for my mum's sake. Because I'm hoping that the last sorry will be to her."
Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
"People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] ‘pratikraman’ does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say ‘sorry’ or ‘thank you’. There is no significance in that; the significance is of ‘alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan’ (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively)."
"When clouds of pain loom in the skyWhen a shadow of sadness flickers byWhen a tear finds its way to the eyeWhen fear keeps the loneliness aliveI try and console my heartWhy is it that you cry? I askThis is only what life impartsThese deep silences withinHave been handed out to all by timeEveryone’s story has a little sorrowEveryone’s share has a little sunshineNo need for water in your eyesEvery moment can be a new lifeWhy do you let them pass you by?Oh heart, why is it that you cry?"
"Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you."
"At times, don’t be forced to play nice with others, especially when their version of playing nice favours them, and is focused on them. Playing nice means working together for a shared result. I’m not sorry for not being able to play nice with everyone, sometimes I only play nice with the best."
"Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do."
"Don't be sorry;Don't you cry.It's enoughThat you tried.I love you,And that won't change.It's not your faultThings worked out this way"
"And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people."
"Dont feel sorry for no one if they dont feel sorry for you"
"On the way home my father said tiredly he hoped some day I'd realize it was necessary to live with people. I didn't understand him. He said a lot of other things that made me feel sorry for him, because he just couldn't stand up to a situation."
"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
"Depression is like waking up and opening the blinds because your plants need sunlight, but it's 8p.m. It's always 8p.m and you keep apologizing for it."
"Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling."
"You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry."
"Such is life. Sometimes we do not even want to know how much pain we cause others, for fear of spoiling our own petty pleasures. And when the time comes to face the consequences, it is too late to be sorry."
"He better call Becky with the good hair."
"Love forgives and keeps no records of wrongs ."
"What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!"
"My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it’d created the only type of guy I could touch—a fantasy one."
"People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other."
"I stare past her at the inspirational kitten posters. There's one of a soaking-wet kitten climbing out of a toilet with the caption "it could be worse!""Just tell me whatever it is you're thinking," Mrs. Paulsen says. "Whatever is going through your mind right now.""I hope they didn't actually drop a cat in the toilet to get that picture," I choke out. "...Pardon?""Nothing. Sorry."
"You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements"
"Words that should cross your lips with ease: thank you, love you, sorry, please."
"It is not wrong to feel sorry for yourself. Just like it is not wrong to sit in a puddle of water while the rain pours down on your head. But neither is productive, unless you enjoy feeling cold and miserable and soggy while mascara runs down your face."
"Don"t gaze too hard at your belly button Or you will unexpectedly hit rock bottom!"
"Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it."
"In any relationship, frequent usage of two words is very important. They can change the course of destiny. These words are – Thank You, and Sorry."
"Apologizing is different from begging, it doesn't change your status, go ahead and get on your knees, spill tears if you got it, for the person you offended, if at all you had a place in their hearts, you'll be totally forgiven and accepted."
"Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego."
"When you say the word 'sorry' make sure you understand that an apology has 3 parts. "I'm sorry", "It's my fault and I won't do it again" and "How can I make things better". The last part is the most important."
"sometimes forgiving someone it's not because he's really sorry and deserved it, but because we were worthy of tranquility."
"When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls."
"Sometimes we learn the most about forgiveness when we realize how desperately we need it ourselves."
"I'm sorry Penelope." "Don't waste my time with sorries,Simon.If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes,we'll never have time to be friends."
"There’s a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you’ve terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze."
"One deep breath, one last step and out into oblivion where death held out its arms into a welcoming embrace."
"True sorrows do not pass like clouds or inclement weather...Sorrows are absorbed over time, and you reshape yourself around them. How you absorb them makes you what you are for good or ill. I think the only true and right way is to take our sorrows into us bravely and wholly, knowing they will hurt, and accepting that sometimes pain is unavoidable. It is when grief is suppressed or hidden that it does harm"
"Sorry doesn’t make anything better. It’s just a word to fill the space of a loss of words."
"Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death."
"You know what sucks about sorry? It's the worst word in the world. Because it always happens after you fuck up something good."
"Just because we're friends, doesn't mean I shouldn't have to say sorry. You deserve that respect."
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