I Forgive Quotes

Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.
- Paulo Coelho

Okay, God. I forgive You for
trusting me. I promise to trust You in return.
- Debra Anastasia

You stream almost too violently, fountain of delight! And often you empty the cup again, by wanting to fill it!
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And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to yourself, however-how could I forgive that!"
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Sex: for free hearts, innocent and free, the garden happiness of the earth, an overflowing of thanks to the present from all the future.
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- Friedrich Nietzsche

Am I forgiven yet?" Sundown
"Find. But only because you look good naked." Abigail
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

let us say before i go any further, that i forgive nobody. i wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generations to come.
- Samuel Beckett

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.
- L M Montgomery

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
- William Blake

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
- Ann Brashares

A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about town with the sharp elbows. Hail and farewell to you! For I, Gemma Doyle, am to have a splendid Christmas in London town. All shall be well.
God rest us merry gentlemen. And gentlewomen.
- Libba Bray

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.
- Tory Burch

I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.
- Jonathan Carroll

I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.
- John Connolly

Deep, choking sobs that sounded like his soul was being torn apart. He clutched at his father and Max took his in his arms. "I am so sorry dad." Kyle sobbed. "And I forgive you because that is what fahters do" said Max
- Clive Cussler

She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person.
- John Green

And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.
- John Green

So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.
- John Green

But still, here are the words Despereaux Tilling spoke to his father. He said,
"I forgive you, Pa!" And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.
- Kate Dicamillo

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
- Charles Dickens

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?
- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I hope you can someday forgive me.'
'I forgive you now.
- Richard Paul Evans

I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again."
"As for my pleasure..." His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it." He crooked a finger at me.
"Come here.
- Diana Gabaldon

My mother's cure for a lifetime of regret lies within the words I forgive you, spoken only by me. I intuitively know this, but some part of me, old and wounded and needing a miracle cure of its own, resists this generosity and won't allow the words to leave my head. And even then, before they can be spoken, they'd have to make the long journey from my head to my heart if they're to earn the sincerity they'd need to be effective.
- Lisa Genova

I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.
- Emiliano Zapata

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.
- Nikki Sixx

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Nothing says I forgive you like a punch in the face.
- Jarod Kintz

Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.
- Barbara Kingsolver

She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.
- Matthew Gregory Lewis

Chris:I forgive you.
Annie: For killing my children and my sweet husband?
Chris: For being so wonderful a guy would choose hell over heaven just to be around you.

- Richard Matheson

I forgive them because they're human and weak. The longer I live, the more I am overwhelmed by the utter, utter weakness of men; they do try to do their duty, they do their best honestly, they seek straight ways, but they're dreadfully weak. And so I think one ought to be sorry for them and make all possible allowances.
- W Somerset Maugham

It was unforgiveable," I said. "But I forgive you.
- Jamie Mcguire

If you do something bad to me, and I say "okay, let's move on," it does not mean I forgive you.
- Karen E Quinones Miller

In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.
- Fred Rogers

I forgive you, I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
- Alice Sebold

It's too late!" I cried
"I thought that once, too. But it's never too late. You taught me that. Love can make us eternal. I'm sorry"
"I forgive you."
-Phoenix and Violet
- Jessica Shirvington

Tom opened his eyes, and looked upon his master. "Ye poor miserable critter!" he said, "there ain't no more ye can do! I forgive ye, with all my soul!" and he fainted entirely away.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.
- Ryan Winfield

It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I'm sorry, to say it's okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then... and then. Who knew?
- Sara Zarr