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Quotes About Forgive

Life seems to ignore the script we have in our mind. And when that happens, we walk. We walk toward, or we walk away. Either way, we begin a journey—a pilgrimage to find or restore or forgive or heal, or to forget or bury—or perhaps just to have the deck of our world shuffled.
~ Terry Hershey
I should have found you detestable.—Forgive that supposition.—By living with you on terms of close intimacy, I should have occasion, I doubt not, to see you in a cotton night-cap or in some absurd or grotesque domestic situation.—You
~ Theophile Gautier
I always forgive, but I never forget.
~ Randy Moss
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon'tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglassI'veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme….
~ Nicole Krauss
The same as most prayers, the bulk of what you hear is complaints and demands. Help me. Hear me. Lead me. Forgive me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Children never forget injustice. They forgive heaps of things grown-up people mind; but that sin is the unpardonable sin.
~ Virginia Woolf
There are certain trifles I do not forgive. Not having read the required book. Having read it like an idiot." - John Shade
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The library smells like old books-a thousand leather doorways into other worlds." "Dear sir, I was called away and couldn't bring you, but now I feel haunted. I know that sometimes you felt I was a part of you and that losing me would leave a hole in your heart, but that's not true... Please forgive me... I am sorry that I didn't say goodbye.
~ Laura Whitcomb
If a man would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, large or small, let him be successful. They will forgive any crime except that.
~ Charles Dickens
Inhabiting this universe is not a cultural prerogative, or a lifestyle decision. And I don't have to forgive or forget a single act of enslavement, theft, imperialism, or patriarchy, in order to be a physicist – or to approach the subject with whatever intellectual tools I need. Every scientist sees further by standing on a pile of corpses – and frankly, I don't care what kind of genitals they had, what language they spoke, or what the colour of their skin was.
~ Greg Egan
Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul's journeying.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.
~ Gail Collins
There are injuries which nature cannot forgive; she would cease to be nature if she did.
~ Thomas Paine
Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person because that may be restored and Loved.
~ Thomas Traherne
If the dead could forgive, should not the living? Harrison would find his own way through life, and his own path to death. Judgment would have to come, if it came at all, from someone wiser than Alvin.
~ Orson Scott Card
I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
~ Oscar Wilde
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
~ Oscar Wilde
Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
~ Craig Groeschel
I charge you, on your duty to God and to your father, that you keep up no feud, no hatred, but rather that you should deem me best revenged, when you have with heart and hand, given the fullest proof of forgiveness to your enemy.
~ Charlotte Mary Yonge
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
~ H. L. Mencken
You can murder children and frail maidens that way, but not real men. He would wake up and start to defend himself. Besides, it was his birthday, and he would never forgive her if she tried to kill him on his sixty-fifth birthday.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
God shall not forgive that person until he forgives his brother, for rancor is a serious affliction that festers in one's heart and blocks good things from coming to one.
~ Hamza Yusuf
The sage said, 'The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love.' That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them you just forget.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
What happened?" said Clover, wetting a cloth in the basin, and dabbing Azalea's face. "She had a sort of fit," said the King. "I think her underthings may be laced too tightly." All the girls, including Azalea, blushed brilliantly. " Sir ," said Eve. "You're not suppose to know about the U word!" "Am I not? Forgive me.
~ Heather Dixon