Top 100 Sorry Life Quotes
#1. It seemed a part of her life, to step from the ancient to the modern, back and forth. She felt rather sorry for those who knew only one and not the other. It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.
Orson Scott Card
#2. Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn't apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn't say sorry for falling. Feelings just are
Iain S. Thomas
#3. Everybody always asks about Jimmy Fallon. I'm sorry to say that he's very nice and there's not much bad to say about him. I don't know if he sucks at videogames or not. I don't think he plays them, but he could have this whole secret life I don't know about.
Rachel Dratch
#4. I'm sorry,' I say for what feels like the millionth time. I know, even as my mouth forms the words, that I will say them for the rest of my life. Forever. That there will never be a time when I am not, in some small way, apologizing for the damage my brother has wrought.
Jennifer Banash
#5. We need you."
"I'm sorry, but I can't let that keep me here anymore.
Ally Condie
#6. I'm sorry, but I have this fear that someday you're going
to
wake up a dried-out, bitter old hag with plenty of science awards
but no personal life whatsoever. And you'll sit there at night and
sob about
how you've wasted your life.
Robin Brande
#7. Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
Mason Cooley
#8. 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
#9. First you have one sort of life and then you have another. I'm sorry, that must sound odd." "No it doesn't. That's what happens to everybody. You
Anna Quindlen
#10. An actress without talent, forty years old, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than the actress.
Anton Chekhov
#11. I'm sorry you never got to live the life you wanted. Or see the world. Have an adventure." He chuckled low in his throat. "Oh, no? I'd say we were having quite the adventure, you and I. They always said to be careful what you wish for, but I wouldn't listen.
Julie Klassen
#12. You could say to the universe this is not fair. And the universe would say: Oh, isn't it? Sorry.
Terry Pratchett
#13. I am blind
but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' ... I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.
Peter Cook
#14. When dark creeps in and eats the light,
Bury your fears on Sorry Night.
For in the winter's blackest hours,
Comes the feasting of the Vours,
No one can see it, the life they stole,
Your body's here but not your soul ...
Simon Holt
#15. Thanks for being my best friend and making my life bearable. Oh, and sorry I fell in love with you for a while there.
Leigh Bardugo
#16. 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
#17. I don't expect you to take me back, but I needed to come here and tell you how sorry I am. I needed to tell you how much I love you, Gavin. How much I need you in my life.
Gail McHugh
#19. 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
#20. You know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With
L.M. Montgomery
#21. Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry ...
Chuck Palahniuk
#22. She spent the whole time in a fog. Lying in her bed, deliberately not calling him. Why should she call him? What was she supposed to say - sorry? Georgie wasn't sorry. She wasn't sorry that she knew what she wanted to do with her life. She wasn't sorry that she was making it happen.
Rainbow Rowell
#23. Would an evil man show this much concern for me when I'm upset? Stand up for me? Rescue me in the middle of a concert? That's who you are now. Not the man who almost killed Colin Westwood. But one who's sorry for what he did and wants to move on with his life.
Jessica Lauryn
#24. I'm not defending him; I have no idea why he's made the choices he has. But ... I can't help but feel sorry for him. Because one day he's going to open his eyes and realize that he's made the biggest mistake of his life.
Emma Chase
#25. I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.
Dr. Seuss
#26. I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.
Stephen Fry
#27. I am what I am... but for the first time in my life, I'm sorry for it.
Heather Blanton
#28. Whatever you do, good or bad, sorry or not, you get punished, darling. Life kicks you in the balls.
Cathleen Schine
#29. Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.
Paulo Coelho
#30. I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole damned human race. I wish the entire human race had one neck and I had my hands around it!
Carl Panzram
#32. In death as in life, I defy the Jews who caused this last war [WW II], and I defy the powers of darkness which they represent. I am proud to die for my ideals, and I am sorry for the sons of Britain who have died without knowing why.
William Joyce
#33. A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#34. I'm sorry if ... I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you're trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever.
Shannon Celebi
#35. I don't think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that's the way I'm succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is 'I'm sorry,' and I keep moving on.
Dikembe Mutombo
#36. Oh God T.J., I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking Nothing like going on about having kids in front of someone whose fertility had been exchanged for survival.
Tracey Garvis-Graves
#37. We are all sorry for something. It's what makes us human, says Seda. But sometimes empathy is not enough. Sometimes empathy needs to be followed by action.
Aline Ohanesian
#38. No." I tilted her chin up. "I expect you to live a damn good life. I expect you to listen to me when I tell you there has never been anyone but you. No one. Only you, always you, forever you. And I'm sorry, but I won't take back what I did." - Nixon
Rachel Van Dyken
#39. Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#40. When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.
Steve Maraboli
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.
W.S. Gilbert
#44. If you expect others to think for you, then you expect others to live your life for you. And I'm sorry, but the only person I'll let live my life for me is my clone. He thinks like me, so I'm OK with him thinking for me.
Jarod Kintz
#45. We can all reduce our life to a description that makes people feel sorry for ourselves or we can expand our life to a dimension where we connect and give to others.
Tony Robbins
#46. Up and down, up and down, a ladder of choices leading to the next choice, and the next, until suddenly you've run out of choices, and ladder, and you find time as rare and thin as air on a mountain. Then it's oops, sorry, turn's over.
Lauren Oliver
#47. But you're not even sorry; you just expect that I'll be okay with the fact you threw your life away for mine.840
Alexandra Bracken
#48. Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.
Daniel Keyes
#49. I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son] ... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.
J.K. Rowling
#50. A lot of people would kill for my life, but I didn't even consider that. I took it - and you - for granted. I'm so, so sorry for that
Kody Keplinger
#51. It's not that "sorry" doesn't mean anything; it just doesn't mean anything when some people say it ... Don't be one of those people.
Steve Maraboli
#52. But life had shifted its weight from one point to another, from one leg to the other, like a silent giant in the vast shadows against the ridge, and I did not feel like the person I had been when this day began, and I did not even know if that was something to be sorry for.
Per Petterson
#53. I'm so sorry, Brody. I won't bullshit you and feed you a line about how it will get easier, because I know it won't. You don't get over losing someone you love. You just learn to live through the pain every day as you try to have some kind of normalcy in your life.
Danielle Jamie
#54. I know I fucked up. I've said I'm sorry for hurting you; I meant it. I promised you that I wouldn't let you down again; I meant it. You might not believe that right now, but you will in time - I won't have it any other way. You're mine, and I refuse to live my life without you in it.
Suzanne Wright
#55. There's so many people dependent on our work for their living or their livelihood. You do something whether it works or whether it doesn't. Once you're committed and you do it, it becomes a part of your life. I wouldn't be sorry about it. I'd learn from it.
Elliott Gould
#56. No you don't understand. I've been afraid my whole life.
So Sorry, but may I ask of what?
Of the future ... of my path..I've..I've been afraid of so many things.
Perhaps..Perhaps your days of being afraid are done.
John Shors
#57. Nora, your self-pity monitor is beeping, it's telling me you're feeling sorry for yourself over something trivial and need to get a life.
L. H. Cosway
#58. What am I sorry for? Taking off her shirt? Kissing her until I thought I was going to lose my mind? Touching her? Feeling her? Of all the things I may be sorry for in my life, I'm honestly not sorry for any of that.
Katie McGarry
#59. He caught her arm. "I'm sorry," he whispered. His blue eyes were intent upon hers. "For I will love you the rest of my life.
Heather Graham
#60. If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn't matter what other people thought of him - even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.
Conn Iggulden
#61. No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it.
Irwin Shaw
#62. Not sorry, not calling, not crying
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by the gold of autumn,
I will no longer be young.
Sergei Yesenin
#63. I've never worked a day in my life," Prince Cale stated, as if it were an accomplishment.
"I'm sorry," said Fred, Prince of Technical Wonders of the Third Kind, "If might be able to find you something to do, if you decide you're interested.
Tyrean Martinson
#64. I am sorry " I murmured.
"I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair.
"I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark.
He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.
Deanna Raybourn
#65. You have to live your life like you'll never be sorry. It's easier just to do the right thing from the start so there's nothing to apologize for. Not that I'm one to talk.
Jennifer Niven
#66. Here's my struggle-here's my story. Don't feel sorry for me. Even if I had the chance, I wouldn't change a thing.
Jean Sharon Abbott
#67. 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
#68. Do not be sorry. Death is a part of life. It is nothing to regret and nothing to fear.
Syrie James
#69. And he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying I am sorry!
Robert Louis Stevenson
#70. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Lillian, my sweet love ... you're safe now. I'll never let anything happen to you again. I swear it on my life. You're safe.
Lisa Kleypas
#71. Sorry I'm late, I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life
-Kakashi Sensei
Masashi Kishimoto
#72. In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.
Norman Fischer
#73. I feel sorry for people who say they cannot read big books.
Anonymous
#74. You won't ever get ahead if you keep feeling sorry for yourself. You must stop all the negative talk and start thinking positive. You have a lot of potential but your life won't change until you change how you think.
Michele Woolley
#75. There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.
Wayne Newton
#76. Sam glanced at him. "Feeling sorry for yourself, are you? I suppose you're allowed. I mean, look at how bloody awful your life is."
"Sarcasm doesn't become you," Griffin retorted.
Kady Cross
#77. Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.
Rachel Vincent
#78. The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#79. He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters.
Mahesh Poudyal
#80. I went to stand next to him, and he gave me his hand, warm and strong. "I am sorry I kept you waiting," I murmured. "I have waited for you the whole of my life," he replied softly. "What is another minute more?
Deanna Raybourn
#81. I was feeling sorry for myself and immediately assumed her life was going better than mine. Ridiculous, of course - no one can know what a stranger's life is like. Often we don't even know what a loved one's life is like. We all keep so many things to ourselves.
Meredith Marple
#82. I'd rather have you in my life than Margret. I'm not sorry you're here. Livia hugged Kyle again, trying to seal her love into her broken sister.
Debra Anastasia
#83. Cole said, "You're the only good thing I've ever done in my life." I replied, "I'm sorry I'm such a wreck.
Maggie Stiefvater
#84. Such is life. Sometimes we do not even want to know how much pain we cause others, for fear of spoiling our own petty pleasures. And when the time comes to face the consequences, it is too late to be sorry.
Menelaos Stephanides
#85. C'mon, Mare. I wish I could say I'm sorry, but I'm married to the love of my life."
"The love of your life is a Harley!"
"Not anymore!
Jamie McGuire
#86. God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down
here.
We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke,
each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her
script, too.
And a sorry one it was.
V.C. Andrews
#87. Our sorry idiot life, our idiot existence, idiot not because it has to be but because it is not what it could be with a little more courage and care.
Thomas Merton
#88. I'm sorry to say it, but it was hard on me to see life continue all around.
Diet Eman
#89. 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
#90. Sorry, he said, kissing me lightly once more and brushing my hair from my face. I'd never seen a less sorry person in my life.
Annabel Monaghan
#91. 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.
Peter James
#92. 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
#93. She asks me how my heart is,
and I say, 'beating.'
That's never the answer you want, and I am sorry about that.
Darshana Suresh
#94. 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
#95. When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be. I love you, Maddie, and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say it to you again.
Rachel Gibson
#96. (Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish, and on top of that, it was boring.
Jean Kennedy Smith
#97. I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.
Jane Seymour
#98. The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#99. Gorillaz virtually changed my wife ... sorry, I mean, life ... no, actually, it was my wife.
Terry Gilliam
#100. Fine. If you want to stay in that chair and feel sorry for yourself for the rest of your life, who am I to stop you? But if the solitude you're so desperately clinging to ever starts to get too dull and lonely, just let me know.
Sorcha MacMurrough
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