Quotation Explorer - 'Sorry'

If I've done anything I'm sorry for, I'm willing to be forgiven.
It's better to have loved and lost than never love at all - I doubt that sorry statement every time I fall. - Phar West Nagle
I’m sorry for hurting you. I know I did. I’m most likely dead now, and I guess if there’s any kind of fairness in the afterlife I’m probably in hell getting roasted. But if that’s where I am, I want you to know, I still love you. Always did. Love, Caine - Michael Grant
I’m sorry, my lady, said Geric, rubbing his arm. But I failed to force an apology out of the offending goose. - Shannon Hale
You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. - Nick Hornby
Being not perfect is not about making mistakes and saying I'm sorry, but! its about learning from it and then being perfect for not making the same mistake again. - Saleem Durrani
The problem with saying or feeling 'sorry' is that it often comes after the damage is already done. (..........and a damage is a damage, small or big, it always leave an ugly mark on one's soul) - Asma Naqi
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. - Sir Winston Churchill
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. - Evelyn Underhill
Sorry for the disaster. And thanks for your patience!
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!' - Ellen DeGeneres
sometimes forgiving someone it's not because he's really sorry and deserved it, but because we were worthy of tranquility. - Glad Munaiseche
I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes. - Gabrielle Zevin
I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters, but I always seem to lay us out bare.Sorry for the poems. - Unknown
Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life-Kakashi Sensei - Masashi Kishimoto
Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
i quit living and start dying.i'm sorry. - wunny azman
I’m sorry I changed… life forced me to grow. - Robert Tew
Max looked around. "Where's your mutt?""Right here, asleep. He won't bite you again. I've talked to him about it, and he's really sorry - Rachel Gibson
Abba, you may not like it, but what I'm doing is important. If you don't agree, then I'm sorry. I can't do anything about it. - Farahad Zama
I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day. - Frank Sinatra
I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure. - L. M. Montgomery
A man, who unconditionally does agree to the unstated clause that it is only he who has to say always SORRY and never she under any damn situation, is only eligible and entitle to marry a woman. - Anuj Somany
When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time. - RSCruz
If your paramount concern in life is to make sure everyone likes and approves of you, I’m sorry to say you’re going to find yourself running in circles for the rest of your life. - Ali B. Moe
You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance. - Jim Carroll
Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door...I'll pay for that!!! Since I'm here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!! - C.K. Webb
Tolerance is NOT acceptance. And that's the problem with ALL religion. It teaches acceptance only for those who believe exactly as you do, and at best, tolerance for the rest of us "sinners." Sorry. Not acceptable. - Quentin R. Bufogle
For me Humanity > Country > Family > Friends > (Religion = Science).Sorry if I disappointed you, but this is what I was and I will follow my whole life. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
If you actively serve God where He places you, you will never have to be sorry for lost time. - Sunday Adelaja
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate. - Seneca
Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer
I'm sorry I have issues with my boyfriend doing other men. I'm sorry I have issues with me doing other men. Why was I always being made to feel guilty because I wasn't having sex with more people? Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around? - Laurell K. Hamilton
People say that they want to kill me. All I say is "I'm sorry but your appointment doesn't start until another hour, please sit in the waiting room. - BlackStar103
We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution. - Subcomandante Marcos
There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry. - Chris Colfer
One could say Youth is power of country then my question is-who is youth?sorry to say but you are not youth. Youth is your thoughts, your inspiration and Your initiatives. So take a step to make a change - Prakhar Srivastav
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. - D. H. Lawrence
We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Yeah I had all kinds of reasons for feeling sorry for myself. Being fifteen didn't help. Sometimes I thought that being fifteen was the worst tragedy of all. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
ALways be careful what you say. You can always say you're sorry, but you can never take back what you said. - F.B. Newman
Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn’t pay for. - Steven Wright
We can make self the Colors in Our Life and it's so Sorry if we Meet People that Show us the Dark Side. - Jan Jansen
Don't ever say you are sorry for "being caught in the moment". Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be. - Cody W
So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi - John Green
I'm sorry...I just don't know what's wrong with me.. - JJM
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life. - Shannon Hale
There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. - Homer
I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. - D. H. Lawrence
It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves. - Marty Rubin
I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. - Kaui Hart Hemmings
It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it. - Charles Dickens
An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice. - Natalya Vorobyova
I'm sorry if any of you are catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're catholic - Bill Hicks
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
I'm sorry for breaking down when I should've been stitching myself back up - Real Friends
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. - Mitch Hedberg
I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. - Scott Corbett
My father told us:The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself. - Mariam Cheshire
Tyson- "Cash? Like...green paper?"Percy- "Yeah."Tyson- "Like the kind in duffel bags?"Percy-"Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g--." "Tyson! How did you--"Tyson- "Thought it was a feed bag for Rainbow. Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry. - Rick Riordan
I'm sorry. I use my rapier wit to hide my inner pain. - Cassandra Clare
A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry. - E.A. Bucchianeri
I am sorry for when I do it hopefully one day you'll realise why. Please do not be angry; just understand that today I tried. - Isabel Aanya Leigh
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories.McGough: Really? When?Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ... - Graham Chapman
She was pleased to have him come and never sorry to see him go. - Dorothy Parker
Humans as a whole are but an unwholesome hole with a sorry ass. In short, a**holes. - Fakeer Ishavardas
Writer's block? I've heard of this. This is when a writer cannot write, yes? Then that person isn't a writer anymore. I'm sorry, but the job is getting up in the fucking morning and writing for a living. - Warren Ellis
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again. - H. L. Mencken
If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight. - Margaret Thatcher
And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes to pass, I fear, And I am sorry it is so. It will come to pass by violence and upheaval, by flame and by fury, for no change comes calmly over the world. - Walter M. Miller Jr.
All roads are tough, but you have to choose the one you know you'll never be sorry for taking. - Chris Burkmenn
Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends sorry, I meant characters. - Carla H. Krueger
I'm sorry. I just meant that all this is new to me. I get lost sometimes." I give her my most honest expression. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War
When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,The man who is sorry over the fact will win. - Lao-tzu
You are not sorry for what you did...you are only sorry for how it turned out for you. - Ken Poirot
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; - Robert Frost
Maria, it sounds like he was insane. Rational people don't intentionally addict people. I feel sorry for those poor people who were unsuspecting victims. - Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote
Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit. - Edward R. Murrow
I’m sorry I broke you. It’s just that you’re so pretty, and I break pretty things. - Denice Envall
Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone. - Harriet Morgan
1. Do what you say you're gonna do 2. Show up! 3. Give genuine praise whenever you can 4. Never say sorry when you don't mean it 5. Never use sarcasm in email (and use the corny ass emoticons) - Matthew Lasar
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. - Aesop
Feeling sorry for myself was an art. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Kid Flash: Sorry. First time at the Hall. I'm a little overwhelmed.Robin: You're overwhelmed. Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn't anyone just whelmed? - Young Justice
Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously. - Bill Hicks
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious. - Ian McEwan
Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door. - David Shrigley
I feel sorry for those who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. - Frank Sinatra
Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.Otani: What's that?Nakao: The whispering of your heart. - Heikichi Nakao Otani
Was I sorry that I chose to come by hand cart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay and I am thankful that I was privileged to come in the Martin Hand Cart Company. - Francis Webster
A winner smiles and a looser cries. The God looks at them and says,'Sorry, guys! - Santosh Kalwar
The Chilcot report is a revelation of injustice under the cloak of Aid. The Chilcot report is a sorry report on the current state of humanity. So the ultimate question here is what are we going to achieve out of the sorry reports when sorry has no meaning in action? - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
I do not fear being hurt, nor am I ever sorry should such pain take hold of me. My real fear would be to never know the the joy of loving someone so deeply as to be that vulnerable… - Tonny K. Brown
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
By the time most people say 'I'm sorry' it is already too late. - Ken Poirot
Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks."I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging - Veronica Roth
Aaron: Dude, one thing the guy said is you don’t taunt voodoo.Zak: Am I taunting?Aaron: Dude, you’re taunting the crap out of it!Zak: I am sorry, I am not taunting you I am just talking...Talking loudly. - Zak Bagans
No more apologies! So we're poor! All right, we're poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world where people Shouldn't have to apologize for being poor. The question in America should be, 'Is this guy a good citizen? Is he honest? Does he pull his own weight? - Kurt Vonnegut
I'm sorry I hurt your hand...with my face."-Bobby Pendragon - D.J. MacHale
And it's good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. Good-bye, my friends, I love you; good-bye, I'm sorry I didn't know you better; good-bye, I'm sorry you'll die soon, too; good-bye, maybe there's hope for you; good-bye, good-bye, good-bye. - Chris Weitz
Kelly took a deep breath. "And I'm sorry I ignored you last week." She scratched her neck. "And you know what? If you think you're a girl..."George braced for Kelly's next words."Then I think you're a girl too! - Alex Gino
You say: 'Oh, please forgive'You say: 'Oh, live and let live.'But sorry doesn't help us.Sorry will not save us.Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway).Sorry doesn't help us.Sorry won't protect us.Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong. - Morrissey
you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry - Taylor Swift
I grabbed a shovel and dug, and dug, and dug.Sorry not a very poetic thought, but very deep. - Lenora Fraga
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry". - Erich Wolf Segal
Apology is not about saying I'm sorry, but it is about the meaning you put behind the apology and admitting that you are the wrong part. - Unarine Ramaru
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. - Frank Sinatra
Sorry, but at first yeah all lie, but you forgot to say that the truth comes from the lies. (Especially for GreenHollyWood) - Deyth Banger
So, yes, I lied, And, believe me, I am so sorry. But I was so in love with you and I didn't know what to do about it and I didn't want to give you any reason not fall in love with me back - Jessica Love
When someone apologizes to you, be sure you know whether they’re sorry, or just scared. - Clifford Cohen
When you say the word 'sorry' make sure you understand that an apology has 3 parts. "I'm sorry", "It's my fault and I won't do it again" and "How can I make things better". The last part is the most important. - Manasa Rao Saarloos
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. - Samuel Johnson
I'm terribly sorry, but nature is not always family friendly.
Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life - Kakashi Sensei
He will be sorry for the way he treated you, Don't you worry about that. Focus on your growth and watch his eyes gaze in sorrow as he knows, he was the bastard that made you strong. - Nikki Rowe
I have notice most writers wants your honest opinion but not your true honest opinion, therefore become upset. Sorry, I will always give my true honest opinion... - Lin
Never put off repairing a relationship you value. If sorry needs to be said say it now. Tomorrow isn’t guaranteed to any of us. - Toni Sorenson
I want to dream a dream so wonderful that I'll wake up sorry that it wasn't a memory. - Robin M. Helm
Hello, IT... Have you tried turning it off and on again?... OK, well, the button on the side. Is it glowing?... Yeah, you need to turn it on.... Err, the button turns it on.... Yeah, you do know how a button works, don't you?... No, not on clothes... I'm sorry, are you from the past? - Graham Linehan
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. - Kate Chopin
Sorry! But I'm not a game played when ever you want to play it! - Gina Karablieh
Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry. - Frank Lloyd Wright
In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves. - Barbara Kingsolver
There are two words that you should use frequently in your youth: ´sorry´ and ´thank-you´. Use the first one as often as possible, so that on your death bed all that you have to say to your friends is ´thank-you!´. - Robin Jones Gunn
I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. - Jonathan Safran Foer
Sorry, Socrates! Every life is worth living. - Marty Rubin
I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living. - Zora Neale Hurston
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. - Stephen Fry
To write what you think is to think what you write. Leave those of hollow to their dust. They are but sorry things. - D.A. Botta
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry. - Erich Segal
Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once. - Madonna
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. - Thomas Jefferson
I'm sorry for ignoring you but that's all I can do. Iloveyou - Taimoor Madni
You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist. - Robert Rauschenberg
It takes courage to own up your actions that hurt others, to look Into the eye and to mean the sorry, To accept the mistake and not deny, all of this needs courage. - Mansi Soni
Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself. - Marty Rubin
Sorry, but despite how I look, I really love this planet.-Gintoki - Hideaki Sorachi
If using 'was' could be deemed gramatically, or atleast emotionally correct, in the sense that it could relate to something that you actually couldn't do in the past, but want to do right now, then i wanna say, I was sorry, for everything... - Allwyn Jose
Am sorry to note that abuse and condemnation of a common acquaintance often constitutes very strong bond of union between otherwise uncongenial spirits. - E.M. Delafield
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself - D.H. Lawrence
Trust means everything. But when it is broken, sorry mean nothing. - Alex Jiang
People feel sorry for you if you sit down on a bench in the evening. - Emmanuel Bove
There was no use feeling guilty about getting on to the ship when you are in the middle of the ocean. If you felt guilty or sorry, you had only one option drown in the middle of the sea. - Jagdish Joghee
I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books. - Anonymous
I don't like it and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do...well, you can't. Sorry about that. - Rachel Caine
Gee, I'm sorry I didn't hear you in all this rain. Go ahead in, please."Anthony Perkin's Norman BatesTalking To Janet Leigh's Marion Crane. - Alfred Hitchcock
They hate us because we are atheists and we feel sorry for them because they are religious. - M.F. Moonzajer
I'm sorry," he muttered. "If I... uh, hurt your feelings or something." She glared at him. "I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated." His head snapped back on his spine. Well... then. Okaaaaay. - J.R. Ward
In Tulsa, restaurants have signs that say, ``Sorry, we're open.'' - Roseanne Barr
People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other. - Amit Kalantri
Not sorry, not calling, not cryingAll will pass like smoke of white apple treesSeized by the gold of autumn,I will no longer be young. - Sergei Yesenin
Dont feel sorry for no one if they dont feel sorry for you - Christian O. Ortiz
Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because I'm sorry has no value in the grave. - Lakesha Ruise
Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself". - Behnam Rajabpoor
If using "was" could be deemed gramatically, or atleast emotionally correct, in the sense that it could relate to something that you actually couldn't do in the past, but want to do right now, then I wanna say, "I was sorry, for everything".. - Allwyn Jose
The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost. - Shannon L. Alder
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
I’m not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga’s Poker Face] - David Mitchell
Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. - Henny Youngman
Never feel sorry for being alive, find your purpose and embrace life. - Gift Gugu Mona
Cheech and Chong Vs. HAL"I can't do that Dave.""Dave's not here, man""That does not compute. Dave""No man, Dave isn't here!!"..."I'm sorry Dave but that is incorrect""No man, Dave's not here!!""Daisy, daisy,.... I'm self terminating now Dave....""No man, dave's not.....Is he gone? - Neil Leckman
I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other people don't have one. - C. JoyBell C.
I don't feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt. - Ted Bundy
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