Expressing Remorse Quotes

The words 'I'm sorry' are so powerful that it's almost difficult to overstate

Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn't really an apology, because you don't bite someone's earlobe to tell them you're sorry.

It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.

Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig." "Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

Did Donald Trump apologize for taking after somebody in a Twitter war and making fun of her weight? Did he apologize for saying African-Americans are living in Hell? Did he apologize for saying President Obama was not even a citizen of the United States? You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologizing.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

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.

I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

"I'm sorry, I just got carried away," hissed Aziraphale.

Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.

Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

...I said I was sorry.” “Be sorry, then. Just be sorry somewhere else.

I’m sorry.” Once again, those were the words. And now, anytime someone says I’m sorry, I’m going to think of her.

So why don't you tell him you're sorry?" Gaby suggested. "Uh... because he probably never wants to speak to me again?" "How do you know? Do you have a fifth sense too?" Scarlett sighed. "No. And I think that's sixth sense." "No, I don't see dead people. It's different.

There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.

I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.

I started to write an apology, but I don't have anything to say I'm sorry for.

Say "thank you" when you're grateful and "sorry" when you're wrong.

I can't say I'm never going to mess up, but if I do, I'll definitely be very sorry.