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Quotes About Forgiveness

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised
~ Cormac McCarthy
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time limit. While it's never too late for revenge.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He looked at her. After a while he said: It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You don't start over. That's what it's about. Ever step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
~ Cormac McCarthy
You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised
~ Cormac McCarthy
Mercy is the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Because he knows what perhaps you do not. That the past cannot be mended.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You believe that the loss of those you loved has absolved you of all else.
~ Cormac McCarthy
After a while he said: It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm saying?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nunca sabes cuándo necesitarás a los que has despreciado.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You've wore Rawlins completely out. I reckon you know that. You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins. Where the hell'd you hear that at? I dont know. I just decided to say it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised, said Blevins.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He took of his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The wrong boy. But what did the heart care about that?
~ Cornelia Funke
Sollte er Staubfinger vielleicht doch noch etwas schlechter machen? Nein, er hatte ihn schon umgebracht, heute würde er ihm einen Gefallen tun. Heute würde er seine Frau dazu bringen, ihm ein für alle Mal zu verzeihen, dass er zehn Jahre fort gewesen war. Manchmal kann ich doch wahrlich ein netter Mensch sein!, dachte Fenoglio.
~ Cornelia Funke
Non far dimenticare all'altro chi era. Dell'amore faceva parte anche questo.
~ Cornelia Funke
Ofelia could still hear Mercedes crying while the blood of the dying girl in her arms was dripping down into the well. She recognized the lullaby Mercedes hummed. And then... Ofelia smiled - oh, so faintly - and then could hear no more. And Mercedes bent over the dead girl and sobbed until the dark hard was wet with her tears.
~ Cornelia Funke
Ofelia could still hear Mercedes crying while the blood of the dying girl in her arms was dripping down into the well. She recognized the lullaby Mercedes hummed. And then... Ofelia smiled - oh, so faintly - and then could hear no more. And Mercedes bent over the dead girl and sobbed until the dark hair was wet with her tears.
~ Cornelia Funke
He ended up in this place because these supposed pals of his had screwed up. He knew that he was going to end up making up with them, going to end up getting deeper into this. He knew that this was how good people did shitty things: one tiny rotten compromise at a time. Well, he wasn't going to go there.
~ Cory Doctorow
The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.
~ Craig Groeschel