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Quotes About Apology

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Oh, baby girl," he says with a sigh. "I am so, so sorry.
~ Laura Wiess
The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it -- as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back
~ Lauren Barnholdt
I put my own feelings before what was right for you, for us. And I shouldn't have done that. Seriously, I fucked it all up.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
I wanted to say I'm sorry. It doesn't make it right, it just... makes it what it is." The bell rings then, and I turn around in my seat, thinking I agree with her, that it is just what it is. And not just the situation with Sebastian. But still wish I knew how I could make it right. How I could make everything right.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
POSSIBLE OPENERS AFTER YOU'VE GOTTEN DRUNK AND SLEPT IN YOUR GUY ROOMMATE'S BED (A LIST): 1. Hey, Drew, thanks for letting me sleep in your bed. I hope I didn't puke all over your sheets. 2. What do you mean? I slept in your bed? Really? I don't remember any of it, I was so wasted. 3. Thanks for not trying to molest me.
~ Lauren Barnholdt
I guess you're referring to Chime Melody?' Froghorn wrinkled his nose, evidently surprised that she was aware of the Chime situation. 'Oh, I'm sorry, no insult intended,' he said, not the merest hint of apology in his voice. Apparently, you're a listener?' 'Sure, I listen,' said Ruby. 'It's important to have an open mind, otherwise one walks around like one knows it all when one is actually a total potato head, no insult intended.
~ Lauren Child
I was an asshole. Stupid. I got caught off guard
~ Lauren Dane
You can't be sorry for how I feel. You can only be sorry for what you do.
~ Lauren Dane
I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.
~ Lauren Myracle
asked his master for forgiveness, but received none.
~ Laurence Bergreen
He didn't know what exactly he wanted to say— I'm sorry, I didn't mean it —only the ever-deepening regret at how things were turning out between them, the desperate and impossible desire to go back to the way things had been.
~ Celeste Ng
Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.
~ Cenotaph in Hiroshima
I've never really apologised to her for that specifically, mostly because I didn't know how to apologise for my brain not working. I can't see girls being cool with... "Hey, sorry about my brain not working right; that things is nuts sometimes. I know I might have confused you, but my brain confused me too. Anyhoo...just letting you know that was why! Hugs!" I mean, I'd be willing to try it once...but just for the story, really.
~ Chad Eastham
By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it.
~ Charlaine Harris
Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post.
~ Charles Beresford
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
~ Charles Dickens
Then I'm sorry to say, I've eat your pie.
~ Charles Dickens
Mr. Parkes, finding himself in the position of having got into metaphysics without exactly seeing his way out of them, stammered forth an apology and retreated from the argument.
~ Charles Dickens
If he was only sorry, he wouldn't look at me as he does. I am only sorry, and it makes me feel kinder.
~ Charles Dickens
me, though he had business relations with me many years ago, and we are now intimate; I will say with the fair daughter to whom he is so devotedly attached, and who is so devotedly attached to him? Believe me, Miss Pross, I don't approach the topic with you, out of curiosity, but out of zealous interest." "Well! To the best of my understanding, and bad's the best, you'll tell me," said Miss Pross, softened by the tone of the apology, "he is afraid of the whole subject.
~ Charles Dickens
Duibuqi, duibuqi
~ Grace Lin
The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.
~ Graham Joyce
I'm sorry," she said, still not turning to look at him. Then she laughed her sad laugh, and Jade realized how accustomed to it he had grown. He wondered how often she had laughed like that before she'd met him. "It feels like I'm doing that all the time now," she said. "Apologizing. More than I ever have." She finally turned to look at Jade. "Believe it or not, I usually have a difficult time with it.
~ Gregg Hurwitz