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Quotes About Apology

There is a fool you feel when somebody is saying they are sorry for doing something to you. It is worse than if you had done something yourself. So you are having the worst of it twice, start and finish.
~ Richard Llewellyn
Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one...
~ Richard Matheson
Nothing heals the soul like chocolate," she said. "I just love chocolate. It's God's apology for broccoli.
~ Richard Paul Evans
I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Ted Valentine got up from his chair and walked over to me. He stuck out his hand and said, "I'm horribly sorry.
~ Richard S. Prather
I'm sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
~ Richard Siken
Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.
~ Richard Siken
Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I couldn't come to your party. Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing.
~ Richard Siken
sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud.
~ Richard Siken
Hello darling, sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known.
~ Richard Siken
Apology" A word sticks in the wind's throat; A wind-launch drifts in the swells of rye; Sometimes, in broad silence, The hanging apples distill their darkness. You, in a green dress, calling, and with brown hair, Who come by the field-path now, whose name I say Softly, forgive me love if I also call you Wind's word, apple-heart, haven of grasses.
~ Richard Wilbur
It depressed him to consider how much energy he had wasted, over the years, in the self-denying posture of apology. From now on, whatever else his life might hold, there would be no more apologies.
~ Richard Yates
I couldn't help it," I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline's "it's not my fault" mantra.
~ Richelle Mead
I'm sorry ma'am," I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I'd spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now… jean shorts?
~ Richelle Mead
Adrian looked away from me and down to where my hand covered his. I blushed and pulled away. "Sorry" I'd probably freaked him out
~ Richelle Mead
I also had to come tonight to apologize. If you need to go to Mexico to finish this process off, then I understand. I was wrong to criticize you for it or even imply that I had some kind of say in it. One of the greatest things about you is that in the end, you always make smart decisions. Can't always say the same for myself. Whatever you need to do, I'll support you.
~ Richelle Mead
Throughout our youth, whenever we had a dispute, Li Wei and I would apologize to each other by exchanging gifts. Mine would be in the form of drawings, crudely done with whatever natural supplies I could find. His would always be carvings. There was only one time the exchange didn't happen, the day I told him I was accepting the apprentice position and would never be able to marry him.
~ Richelle Mead
Adrian." I laid my hand over his an felt a warm spark of connection. He jerkedd his head toward me in astonishment. "Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a longe time... and it's all good." Adrian looked away form me and down to where my hand covered his. I blushed and pulled away. "Sorry." I'd probably freaked him out. He glanced back up at me. "Best thing that's happened to me all day. Let's hit the road.
~ Richelle Mead
But anything other than a yes or no question was beyond us, apparently. He opened up his mouth as though he would say something. He looked like he was trying hard, like Adrian had with the plant. But no sound came out. "I'm sorry," I whispered. "I'm sorry I don't understand . . . and . . . I'm sorry for everything else." Mason gave me one last wistful look and then vanished.
~ Richelle Mead
I is telling you once before,' he said quietly, 'that I is never having a chance to go to school. I is full of mistakes. They is not my fault. I do my best. You is a lovely little girl, but please remember that you is not exactly Miss Knoweverything yourself.' 'I'm sorry,' Sophie said. 'I really am. It is very rude of me to keep correcting you.
~ Roald Dahl
I beg your pardon?
~ Roald Dahl
was about to have mine,' the Queen said, 'but Mary dropped it.
~ Roald Dahl