David Whyte Quotes

It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry... but I do.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

I apologise to people when I need to.

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

I've always found it hard to say sorry.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.

Apology is often the first step in correcting a wrong. Having moved for a position of saying 'I don't need forgiveness,' Mr. Trump is now taking a second look at past behaviors, things that he's said and done that he regrets. While he is not asking for forgiveness for being human, he is admitting that he's made mistakes and humbly making apologies.

I've become a master of the apology.

I've done things in the media I was not only not proud of, I was ashamed of.

If I'm in the wrong, I'll always say sorry, but sometimes it takes a while.

To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

You can say you're sorry 5,000 times, but that doesn't mean you mean it.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.