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Quotes About Apology

Exactly so!" called Skifr. "I daresay this tight-lipped Vansterman knows battle. How did you get that scar, my dove?" "I was milking a reindeer and she fell on me," said Fror. "She was ever so sorry afterward, but the damage was done" And Brand wondered if he winked his misshapen eye. "Truly a hero's mark, then," grunted Thorn, curling her lip. Fror shrugged. "Someone must bring in the milk.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Thank you, Maggie. For everything. For trying to warn me. For helping me. I'd give anything to take back the way I acted when I saw you in Haverhill. I was scared of you. That's not an excuse. There isn't any excuse. There's a lot of things I wish I could redo. You can't imagine. I wish there was something I could do to show you how sorry I am. Something I could give you besides words.
~ Joe Hill
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
~ Joe Slovo
I love you." "I'm sorry." "Please forgive me." "Thank you.
~ Joe Vitale
I wish there were a better than 'sorry'. But then, I'd probably need a better word than that.
~ Joey Comeau
I had my hands on you last night, my mouth, and everything I touched was delicate, beautiful. Something I want to keep safe. That's the way I'm built, and I won't apologize for that, but I will apologize for it making me say something that stupid.
~ Joey W. Hill
I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.
~ Robert Breault
My life is an apology for the life of my father.
~ Kristin Cashore
I'm sorry I can't give you the normal life you wanted, but I promise to adore you every day for the rest of your new one.
~ Jeaniene Frost
The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.
~ Cathy Guisewite
I guess I have learnt now that life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
~ Celina Jaitly
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
~ Alan Moore
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
~ Robin Quivers
We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
~ Rick Perry
We read all twenty-eight emails. When she is finished, Mirren kisses me on the cheek. "I can't even say sorry," she tells me. "There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
~ E. Lockhart
Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.
~ E. Lockhart
I can't even say sorry," she tells me. "There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
~ E. Lockhart
He would take up the shit lovingly, literally pick it up in his arms, and he'd say, Oh, I see it all now. I am the one who caused this shit to be so very shitty. This shit is all my fault,
~ E. Lockhart
Don't read my papers," I moan. "Don't." He steps back. "It's up there for anyone to see. Sorry.
~ E. Lockhart
I'm not ashamed. I don't apologize. But it has frightened you, and you may not have noticed that I love you.
~ E. M. Forster
Oh, what have I done?" "You fainted." "I—I am very sorry.
~ E.M. Forster
He apologized when I was twelve. He was crying. I don't like to remember that. I like to remember the time he spelled and defined 'metamorphosis' when my mama was clean. He used her as an example, and he was chewing on the Popsicle stick left over from our lunch that day. When he smiled, his teeth were mad purple.
~ E.R. Frank