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I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down.
Sep 24, 2025
Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.
What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.
Don't go into Ramadan having hurt anyone without seeking their forgiveness. The last thing you'd want on the day of judgment is to find that your entire Ramadan with all of its quran recitation, fasting, taraweeh prayers, laylatul qadr, etc. went completely to waste because your pride stopped you from saying “I'm sorry”. With that being said, I'm sorry if I've written, said, or done anything to offend you. Please find it in your heart to forgive and make dua that Allah grants me guidance and sincerity.
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
True sorrow is as rare as true love.
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.
Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.
Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.
Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.
An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.
The weak can never forgive.
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Friends are God's apology for relations.
More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.
A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.
An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
True friends stab you in the front.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.
Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.
For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.
Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.