643 Quotes About Sorry

If only I could touch what’s broken in me, and tell it: “I’m sorry”.

The longer you hold onto an apology, the harder it is to give.

Je suis désolé,' he said. You had to wonder about the French, how they could make a simple 'sorry' sound so extreme and forlorn.

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.

When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.

'I'm sorry' won't fix what's been broken.  It can't reverse time or undo the damage or change anything that happened.  But a sincere, humble apology can serve to soften the sting and sometimes do a pretty good patch up job.

I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.

I’m sorry that you cried on your own. Forgive me for not being your home.

And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.