I'm Sorry Quotes - Page 23

• Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.

  Nick Hornby

  Sorry, Couple, Regret

  9 Copy quote

• What is the thing that Will could do to make me not love him? That would make me abandon him? I can’t think of one. I'm sorry. Except if he did something bad to the kids - now we've got a problem.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Sorry, Kids, Thinking

  "The Divine Sisterhood of Jada Pinkett Smith". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. June 4, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm sorry, but I don't get it. If we're supposed to ignore everything that's wrong with our lives, then I can't see how we'll ever make things right.

  A.S. King

  Sorry, Make Things Right, Our Lives

  4 Copy quote

• Dear motorist on the information superhighway. I'm sorry I do not have a car.

  Kid Koala

  Sorry, Car, Information

  7 Copy quote

• I’m sorry, my lady,” said Geric, rubbing his arm. “But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose.

  Shannon Hale

  Sorry, Apology, Offending

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.186, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

  Jennifer Egan

  Sorry, Believe, Heart

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.156, Anchor

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sorry, Forgiving, World

  8 Copy quote

• It's now or never. This is simple to say, but then to live like that is not easy at all, I'm sorry. You have to be aware enough so that you can see situations as they pass in front of you and be able to catch the instant, whatever it is. Many times, you just don't see the moment when you were yawning and then it's too late.

  Vincent Cassel

  Sorry, Simple, Yawning

  27 Copy quote

• I'm sorry for the anguished hearts that break with passion's strain, But I'm sorrier for the poor starved souls that never knew love's pain, Who hunger on through barren years not tasting joys they crave, For sadder far is such a lot than weeping o'er a grave.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Pain, Sorry

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

  Desmond Tutu

  Sorry, Humility, Order

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

  Gladys Taber

  Spiritual, Hurt, Sorry

  13 Copy quote

• The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.

  Anne Tyler

  Sorry, Character, Writing

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.

  Robert Sternberg

  Sorry, Book, School

  4 Copy quote

• My mom was never afraid to say, 'I'm sorry. I screwed up.' I feel like that's an important lesson.

  Miranda Lambert

  Mom, Sorry, Important

  Source: www.elle.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm sorry your pretty little world got all screwed up, but everybody's does, and you go on. It's how you go on that defines you.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sorry, Doe, Goes On

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.115, Delacorte Press

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sorry, Grief, Bereavement

  11 Copy quote

• The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: "May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry" and "never, never, never end the day without making peace."

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Sorry, Husband

  "Pope Francis' top 10 most quotable quotes of the year" by Carol Glatz, www.catholicnews.com. February 28, 2014.

  200 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sorry, Loses, I'm Sorry

  8 Copy quote

• To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing--I'm sorry, I would rather not go on.

  Yann Martel

  Mother, Brother, Sorry

  Yann Martel (2002). “Life Of Pi”, p.169, Canongate Books

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.

  Rachel Vincent

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

  44 Copy quote

• The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

  Kevin Leman

  Inspirational, Children, Sorry

  Kevin Leman (2005). “Making Children Mind without Losing Yours”, p.75, Baker Books

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• People are frightened of death, and the central lie of all religion is that there’s a cure for this and an exception we’ve made in your own case: an eternal life offered if you make the right propitiations and the right abjections. Well, I’m sorry. I think that it's the height of immorality to lie to people like that. That’s why [religion] survives.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Sorry, Lying, Thinking

  46 Copy quote

• I feel like the feminine has been a little undervalued. We all have to get our own jobs and make our own money, but staying at home, nurturing, being the mother, cooking — it's a valuable thing my mom created. And sometimes, you need your knight in shining armor. I'm sorry. You need a man to be a man and a woman to be a woman. That's why relationships work.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mother, Jobs, Sorry

  "Feminist Dogma Bites Kirsten Dunst" by David Limbaugh, www.newsmax.com. April 18, 2014.

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Inspirational, Marriage, Sorry

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.25, BookBaby

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Sorry, Writing, Apology

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Anyone who looked at nude pics 'perpetuating a sexual offense'", www.foxnews.com. October 7, 2014.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source