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Quotes About Apology

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.
~ Joyce Meyer
You deserve someone who knows how to make things up to you after hurting you. Not someone who is very good with just the word, sorry.
~ Unknown
I want to apologize to all the people who I feel I hurt the most, because I pushed them away. I want to say thank you for all the people who helped throughout all the struggles I've had. And I want to reconnect with the people who I feel that I will never see again.
~ Unknown
Always forgive, for it is symbol of strength and never apologise, for it is a symbol of weakness.
~ Unknown
An apology is an expression of regret where the voice rarely matches the words.
~ Unknown
An apology is saying the right thing after doing the wrong thing.
~ Unknown
The less you say, the more you don't have to apologize.
~ Unknown
If I should later come to see that I did wrong, well, then I shall of course be sorry, but as it is I have been unable to see how else I could possibly have acted. When somebody tells me decisively, 'Get out of my house, the sooner the better, in half an hour rather than an hour,' well then, my dear fellow, it doesn't take a quarter of an hour for me to leave, never to return either.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
No. My fault. I didn't. Have to. Smoke.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
Sorry I spit, I'll try to quit?
~ W. Bruce Cameron
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
~ Robert Orben
One who is truly confident is able to apologize.
~ Unknown
The important thing was to forget about Iris's hair and let her speak, let her find her fluency and, from the soft streaming of her own words, create for him his apologia.
~ Philip Roth
it seemed to me that this man seemed to be wise, both to many other human beings and most of all to himself, but that he was not. And then I tried to show him that he supposed he was wise, but was not. So from this I became hateful both to him and to many of those present Plato,Apology
~ Plato
The door banged open, and Eve rushed out, flushed and mussed and still buttoning her shirt. 'It's not what you think,' she said. 'It was just—oh, okay, whatever, it was exactly what you think. Now, what ?
~ Rachel Caine
I just—we were talking, and we fell asleep. I swear, we didn't, um—'' ''Yeah, you'd better not have ummed.
~ Rachel Caine
She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked, I'm sorry, Claire. I never meant - I'm sorry. Sometimes I don't know... I don't know what I am thinking. I wish... I wish things could be like they were before.
~ Rachel Caine
I'm not leaving," Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. "Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.
~ Rachel Caine
He held out the hand that wasn't holding up the blankets, palm out. 'OK,' he said. 'OK, think, Collins, think - yeah, OK, this is awkward, and I'm really sorry, because I'm sure you're really - Oh, man. What the hell did I do? Was there drinking? There must have been drinking.
~ Rachel Caine
I guess in my beer-soaked mind it would all just magically work out, and she'd be so happy to see me she'd forget about everything else. Because everybody loves having the drunken self-pitying boyfriend banging on their door at, Jesus, four thirty in the morning.
~ Rachel Caine
What I'm sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I'm sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don't imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you'd had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.
~ Rachel Cohn
Driver, can you tell him that I'm sorry? I wasn't supposed to be like this. I swear.
~ Rachel Cohn
I instantly regretted my comeback but that's the thing about unkind words. You can try to undo the damage, but (a) it's hard when you're all coffee-ed up, and (b) you can't take it back, ever.
~ Rachel Cohn