Saying Sorry Quotes

“The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.”
― Dianna Hardy, Cry Of The Wolf

“It doesn't mean I am afraid of conflict or don’t know how to stand up for myself. I am getting to a place right in the middle where I feel good about exactly how much I apologize. It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for. It takes years to find your voice and seize your real estate.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter.”
― Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America

“If you had one last breath - what would you say?

If you had one hour to use your limbs before you would lose the use of them forever - would you sit there on the coach?

If you knew that you wouldn't see tomorrow who would you make amends with?

If you knew you had only an hour left on this earth - what would be so pressing that you just had to do it, say it, or see it?

Well there is something that I can guarantee - that one day you will have one day, one hour and one breath left.

Just make sure that before that day that you have said, done and experienced everything that you dream of doing now.

Do it now - that is what today is for.

So pick up the phone and call an old friend that you have fallen out of touch with.

Get out and run a mile and use your body and sweat.

Seek out someone in your life to say your sorry to. Seek someone In your life that you need to thank. Seek someone in your life that you need to express your feelings of love to.

Then when that day comes you will be ok with it all.”
― John Passaro

“I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk.
You did.
Is that forgiveness?
I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge.”
― Janet Mullany, Hidden Paradise

“Sometimes, "I told him, as the darkness swirled closer and closer, "you just have to say you're sorry."
It's more than that, and I think by then I knew it. It's more than saying sorry.
It's meaning it. It's letting the apology change things. But an apology is where it has to begin.”
― Neil Gaiman, MirrorMask

“Saying you’re sorry is an act of strength. Apologizing says I appreciate you and your feelings and I am strong enough to admit that I did something that hurt you. Honest self-reflection is not for the weak. It is perhaps one of the greatest acts of courage. So is apologizing. It is not lowering yourself. It is not about power. It does not even have to directly relate to the transgression itself. It says, I see you and hear you. You are important to me. Saying I’m sorry is telling someone they matter.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“Good point." Sophia said at last. "I'm not very good at saying sorry, but I apologize.”
― Chris Kurtz, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig

“I think we each have a certain number of unnecessary apologies, which we willingly dish out before we realize it's time to stand and fight. I may still have two or three left.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“To be able to say 'sorry' to a woman- a sister, or a mother, is a most helpful thing, whether sorry or not. Still, for the sake of peace and gentleness at home just 'Sorry''which doesn't bind you to anything---but it turns away wrath! And soreness! And is like sunshine and hurts no one.”
― Catherine Bailey, The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

“Great wrongs unleash with savage ferocity and apologies vomit forth with epic reluctance.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Saying sorry and not changing from the story that brought the story is the same story.”
― Ned Bryan Abakah