643 Quotes About Sorry

Amazing how many people are sorry for the consequences they suffer as a result of their terrible actions yet completely unremorseful with regard to the ones they intentionally harmed by those same actions.

Forget what we became, what matters is what we've become, and our potentials to overcome.

People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] ‘pratikraman’ does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say ‘sorry’ or ‘thank you’. There is no significance in that; the significance is of ‘alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan’ (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively).

There will always be a moment to feel sorry for the mistakes, but indeed it is not today.

People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.

{Bjørnson on the great Colonel Robert Ingersoll, whom he translated into Norwegian}I am very sorry that, when I was in America, I did not have the opportunity to grasp the hand of a man who, with the sword, fought to free from bodily slavery three millions of people, and who has shown the way to intellectual freedom to many millions more. I envy the land that brings forth such glorious fruit as Ingersoll.

But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't

Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry.

I'm sorry...” was all he said. With that Alexander Julius Wayne disappeared in a green puff and left his father in misery. A misery that soon parlayed itself into a heart attack for a man who just both found and lost his son again for a second time. As Patrick Wayne's body collapsed on the floor chest first and plunged into unconsciousness, one could see tears rolling down his anguished face.