Late Apology Quotes

He pulled himself back up straight into his chair. Then, before she had any idea what he'd planned, he pulled her down into his lap. She fell, surprised. His embrace was passionless; more comforting than anything. She didn't mind. It was too late at night for anything else. Richard yawned as he snuggled her close and rested his cheek against the top of her head. "I'm not good at apologizing," he said with another yawn. She pulled back and put her hand over his mouth. "Yes, you are. Apology accepted. ~ Lynn Kurland

Apology Letter from the Brain
Hey there. I'm sorry. OK? But can I say something? Look. I admit I wasn't perfect. No one is perfect. That's a fact. Speaking of facts, don't you think we all need to take a minute and decide who is right and who is wrong? Every side is different; it's just that my side seems more right. I'm not just saying that because it's my side. I think a lot of other people would agree with me, given the chance. If I upset you in some way, please know that wasn't my intention. I didn't know how sensitive you were. It's obvious I can set you off very easily. That's not an insult; it's just an observation. I think it would help if we talked about this more and argued about who was telling the truth. I would like to see you in person and tell you how the situation has affected me. I may use this opportunity to bring up other times you have hurt me in the past. If possible, I would like to hurt you back. Either way, I want to be in control. Until then, take care. And please, remember I reached out first.
I remain,
THE BRAIN

Apology Letter from the Heart
Hey there. I'm sorry. I've found it hard to tell you this, and I realize my apology may be too little or come too late. It is important for me to let you know that I am sorry for what I did or said or didn't do or say. I was wrong. I make mistakes. I HATE that I made one with you. I'm reaching out because life goes by so fast and I just don't want my one life to go by without expr ~ Amy Poehler

There were times when an apology was best, she thought, even when one really had nothing to apologise for. If only people would say sorry sooner rather than later, Mma Ramotswe believed, much discord and unhappiness could be avoided. But that was not the way people were. So often pride stood in the way of apology, and then, when somebody was ready to say sorry, it was already too late. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

If I might offer any apology for so exaggerated a fiction as the Barnacles and the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the common experience of an Englishman, without presuming to mention the unimportant fact of my having done that violence to good manners, in the days of a Russian war, and of a Court of Inquiry at Chelsea. If I might make so bold as to defend that extravagant conception, Mr Merdle, I would hint that it originated after the Railroad-share epoch, in the times of a certain Irish bank, and of one or two other equally laudable enterprises. If I were to plead anything in mitigation of the preposterous fancy that a bad design will sometimes claim to be a good and an expressly religious design, it would be the curious coincidence that it has been brought to its climax in these pages, in the days of the public examination of late Directors of a Royal British Bank. ~ Charles Dickens

Back To December is a song that addresses a first for me. In that I've never apologized in a song before. Whether it be good or bad or an apology. The person I wrote this song about deserves this. This is about a person who was incredible to me- just perfect in a relationship- and I was very careless with him. So, this is a song full of words that I would say to him that he deserves to hear.


I've never felt the need to apologize in a song before, but in the last two years I've experienced a lot, a lot of different kinds of learning lessons And sometimes you learn a lesson too late and at that point you need to apologize because you were careless. ['Back To December'] is about a person who was incredible to me, just perfect to me in a relationship, and I was really careless with him

I've written songs about things like burning my ex boyfriends pictures… I've written songs about the times that I've been hurt by love. But then one day I woke up and realized that I had hurt somebody… And so I wrote this song to tell him I'm sorry ~ Taylor Swift

I'm so sorry we were late," she was apologizing in her Lauren Bacall gracious woman mode, the one that always made people accept her apology. "John wasn't sure until the last minute whether he felt like coming or not. But I did so want to meet Aurora's new neighbors, and it was so kind of you to invite us ... ~ Charlaine Harris

And finally he had upset the whole household when he arrived an hour and a half late for luncheon and covered with mud from head to foot, and made not the least apology, saying merely: I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or by the arbitrary divisions of what is known as Time. I would willingly reintroduce to society the opium pipe of China or the Malayan kriss, but I am wholly and entirely without instruction in those infinitely more per-nicious (besides being quite bleakly bourgeois) implements, the umbrella and the watch. ~ Marcel Proust

sometimes
the apology
never comes
when it is wanted

and when it comes
it is neither wanted
nor needed

-you are too late ~ Rupi Kaur

I shrugged. "I guess that guys who'd never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would," I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late. ~ Tammara Webber

An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better. ~ John Kador

When you make a mistake, give an apology without an excuse attached to it. The longer an apology, the less authentic it is. ~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes you withhold an apology for having wronged someone, in a state where you were not yourself. Because some states of life can never be understood by those who have not experienced them. ~ Wordions

Ordained Baptist minister; I make no apology for my faith. ~ Mike Huckabee

I'm sorry you're angry" is NOT an apology. ~ Lisa Lutz

Don't live life like an apology. Be yourself unapologetically. ~ Darlene Lancer

Apology is not about saying I'm sorry, but it is about the meaning you put behind the apology and admitting that you are the wrong part. ~ Unarine Ramaru

"I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer. ~ John Kador

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour. ~ Amy Adams

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology? ~ Marie Lu

Apology is the most courageous gesture we can make to ourselves. ~ John Kador

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

No apology is equal to the task set before it. ~ John Kador

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~ Lynn Johnston

Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces. ~ Cynthia Heimel

I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. ~ Will Self

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity. ~ Burt Bacharach

The embassy in Cairo put out a statement after their grounds had been breached ... An apology for America's values is never the right course ... The statement that came from the administration was - was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a - a severe miscalculation. ~ Mitt Romney

Violets are God's apology for February ... ~ Barbara Johnson

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question ... so break 'yo'self'! ~ T.F. Hodge

After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind. ~ Martin Jacques

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology. ~ Michael Chabon

There is no apology from any Muslim leader for all the massacres of Christians ~ Dennis Prager

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain. ~ Lester Cole

Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly. ~ Beverly Engel

An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?" ~ John Kador

Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got. ~ Robert Breault

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that. ~ Christopher Shays

An apology for America's values is never the right course. ~ Mitt Romney

And I make no apology for linking my thinking with computer technology. ~ Maxwell Frazer

A genuine apology is like an eleventh-hour rain on a dusty crop. Grossly overdue, but miraculously just in time. ~ Jacqueline A. Bussie

4.04 APOLOGY
A second insult be just a stiff apology,
As the first be when hurt was the party;
Damages for aggrieved no medicine be,
But healing from hurt - the desire only.
[38] - 4 ~ Munindra Misra

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken! ~ Evinda Lepins

Everything starts with a lie and ends with an apology. ~ Zoran Drvenkar

God, I wanted to be forgiven, but an apology offered to a dead man is only a selfish apology to yourself. ~ Sherman Alexie

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late. ~ Lisa Kleypas

A hero is someone we can admire without apology. ~ Kitty Kelley

I am impressed! I hope you'll accept my apology for having to kill you all now. ~ Rick Riordan

The only people I owe an apology to are my dead parents. Except my father because he's still alive. ~ Chelsea Handler

My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know. ~ Joan Rivers

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless. ~ Bryan Davis

A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy. ~ Beverly Engel

We value apology in the abstract, but turn our backs on it in practice. ~ John Kador

Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later. ~ Lennon Parham

I want a formal apology from the mayor. ~ Antonio Gonzalez

The best apology against false accusers is silence. ~ John Milton

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~ Red Auerbach

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. ~ Randy Pausch

Poetry speaks most effectively and inclusively (whether in free or formal verse) when it recognizes its connection - without apology - to its musical and ritualistic origins. ~ Dana Gioia

It was never too late to undo who you had become. ~ Rosanne Cash

In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. ~ Horace

Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value. ~ John Kador

It's never too late to learn. ~ Malcolm Forbes

My life is an apology for the life of my father. ~ Kristin Cashore

That late bloomers bloom late because they simply aren't much good until late in their careers. ~ Malcolm Gladwell

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology. ~ Janet Macunovich

Suicide is the utmost sincere and candid apology to the ones you hurt most ~ Christopher J Marshall

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late? ~ Christopher Morley

There was nothing else I could do but say sorry myself. His apology had left a residue in me, a residue on my thinking, and continuing on in this house without saying it would be entirely awkward. It would turn the small space toxic. So I said it, though I tried to lessen the potency of the apology by mumbling. ~ Alexandra Kleeman

"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves." ~ Kanye West

It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be. ~ George Eliot

It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back. ~ Loretta Swit

Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. ~ Ralph Barton Perry

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves. ~ Drew Barrymore

Sometimes we don't need an apology right away. We're better off letting that person feel their own shame before we give them any relief from their actions. ~ Ron Baratono

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused. ~ Charles I Of England

An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender. ~ John Kador

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. ~ Charles I Of England

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology. ~ Chuck Grassley

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

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology. ~ Amy Dickinson

Apology is the practice of extending ourselves because we value the relationship more than we value the need to be right. ~ John Kador

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange. ~ Ivan Lendl

I think I deserve an apology. ~ Dana Perino

The purpose of apology is to extend ourselves in such a way that relationships become deeper, and life becomes richer and more human in the process. ~ John Kador

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense. ~ John Alfred Langford

Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged ... and forgiveness destroys the cage. ~ Sanjo Jendayi

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless. ~ Stephen Kinzer

The more I go through parenting, the more I say I owe my mother an apology. ~ Ray Romano

Now she remembered. He owed her an apology. "Say you're sorry."
"For what?"
"Just say it."
She didn't hear his reply. The world had grown very dark indeed. ~ Leigh Bardugo

It's only too late if you don't start now. ~ Barbara Sher

God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time. ~ R.T. Kendall

The art of a sincere and heartfelt apology is one of the greatest skills you will ever learn. ~ Jeanette LeBlanc

You are the biggest culprit of someone, when you know what you did was wrong, and knowingly you lockdown that apology within you. ~ Somya Kedia

While we ponder when to begin, it becomes too late to do. ~ Quintilian

Tis not too late to seek a newer world ~ Heraclitus

It's much too late to save myself from falling. ~ Elton John

My life is not an apology, but a life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am running a bit late. But all right, if I'm going to be late, I should be at least thirty minutes late. There's something small-minded about running just five minutes late, don't you think? ~ Max Frei

You see, the thing about dreams is that it's never really too late to make them come true. ~ Sherryl Woods