Quotes About Forgiveness

Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them.

Perhaps," said Demelza, trembling all over. "Perhaps I'd ought to have asked for an introduction seeing it's so long since we met." "I don't doubt you have been well consoled in my absence," said Ross. "You were not concerned to come and see whether I was or no." "It seems that I was unwelcome when I did.

All the week a great thunderbolt hung over the house. All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath. But she could very well have been buried with this wrath, because it came from a wound that knew no cure.

All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath.

All her life Demelza's principle, though she did not know it as such, had been never to let the sun go down on her wrath. But she could very well have been buried with this wrath, because it came from a wound that knew no cure.

So much had happened in their relationship since the angry scene of last August that they met like strangers, remembering the old emotions but no longer feeling them.

The awful catastrophe of their quarrel had evaporated in a commonplace.

Lui fece girare il frustino ancora e ancora tra le dita. «Sai che non ti odio. Buon Dio, dovresti sapere che...»

A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners

The crimes of the vanquished find their background and their explanation, though not, of course, their pardon, in the follies of the victors. Without these follies crime would have found neither temptation nor opportunity.

El olvido generoso tiende su velo, los tullidos se apartan y los seres dolientes se desvanecen en el triste crepúsculo de la memoria.

Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear time suggests. We can return. We can pick up what we dropped. We can mend what others broke. We can talk with the dead.

Po ka?dej wojnie kto? musi posprz?ta?.

Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.

When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents' passion. We murder their lives. There can never be any forgiveness.

the love which Kahu received from Koro Apirana was the sort that dropped off the edge of the table, like breadcrumbs after everybody else has had a big meal.

Let mercy keep company with courage. Follow my advice in this: if in battle you win a man's surrender, then unless he has done you such grievance as amounts to heart's sorrow, accept his oath, and let him live.

Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.

She said, My whole life, I've never been anyone's top priority. I, who had been the top priority of a large, extended family, the apple of many loving eyes, tried to put myself in Soon-Yi's place and decided to make her my top priority. I decided I would dote on her, wait on her, spoil her, celebrate her, never deny her anything she wanted, and somehow try and make up for the horrific first twenty-two years of her life

Metí la pata. Perdóneme. El hecho de que usted no se percatara de que faltaba una carta indica igualmente cierto despiste por su parte, que yo, por la mía,atribuyo a su impaciencia, pero Dios sabe que todos cometemos errores. Así es la vida. Y el ajedrez.

A world I will never feel comfortable in, never understand, and never approve of or forgive.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. Page 316