“Apologies are like dandelions, Mr. Amberson. They’re pretty enough, and they sprout up fast, but they don’t have much substance.”— Brian Nelson, Bridget Carpenter, Mia Mimi Corcoran, Tonya Pinkins, imdb.com
“I'm sorry, Sabrina. I didn't want to hurt you; I just wanted to rule you.”— Nick Bakay, Salem Saberhagen (voice), Nick Bakay, imdb.com
“Zelda: Salem, you owe Sabrina an apology. Now! Salem: I’m thinking of how to word it. Hilda: Try 'I’m sorry.' Salem: Somehow, that just doesn’t feel right...”— Frank Conniff, Salem Saberhagen (voice), Nick Bakay, imdb.com
“Hey! I don't remember you. I've spent the last two days trying to remember every girl that I've slept with and all of the horrible things that I have done to them—and I have done some horrible things. I mean, at one point I'm pretty sure I sold a woman. I didn't speak the language, but I shook a guy…”— Joe Kelly, Barney Stinson, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com
“Personally, I feel like if you come at someone publicly, you can apologize publicly too.”— Keah Brown, twitter.com
“Apologies are meaningless without action to rectify the harm done and prevent a repetition of the problem.”— N. K. Jemisin, twitter.com
“I'm not sorry. I take the apology back 1,000 percent. The reason I made the apology is when the image went out, I thought people would just think, 'That's Kathy doing another shocking image.' I've done many throughout my entire career, and I've done many shocking things.”— Kathy Griffin, rollingstone.com
“All my comedian friends were mad that I apologised at all, but having performed in two war zones, I thought this is a narrow apology because the thing people think was depicted I understand.”— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com
“Redemption must be preceded by atonement. It is earned, not offered. If you want amends, you have to make them.”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“I’m sorry. I was supposed to be a safe harbour for you. But I have storms of my own, too.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“We loved like we were trying to make up for lost time. Every touch an apology, an ‘I’m sorry I haven’t been with you every day since elementary school.’”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com
“…And we used ‘I love you’ like an apology for the things we couldn’t give each other.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”— Robert Brault, goodreads.com
“‘I’m sorry,’ I say. 'I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.’”— Kaui Hart Hemmings, amazon.com
“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 Thomas, amazon.com
“Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word against a thousand actions.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com