“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
“Honestly, boys, I don’t know how you keep finding me. Truly, I don’t. But I do know that you’re going to be sorry you did. And not just the kind of 'I took half a sheet of LSD down at the bullfight last night' kind of sorry, neither. No, no, no, no, no, boys. No, this kind of sorry it’s much worse.”— Sam Catlin, Cassidy, Joseph Gilgun, imdb.com
“I want an apology and some Rice Krispie Treats!”— Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman, Peter Griffin, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com
“Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.”— Frederick Douglass, amazon.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
“Sorry a million times over...”— Naoshi Arakawa, Takao Yoshioka, Patrick Seitz, Kaori Miyazono, Risa Taneda, imdb.com
“That is the kind of evil practice which would cause the people to lose their dignity and honor. The people should demonstrate clearly and distinctly their capacity to forgive.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m fine now, I’m sorry I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, I am sorry, I’m sorry”— Kim Jonghyun, open.spotify.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
“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
“It's all or nothing if you're my all or nothing Well all of you are nothing, I'm sorry that I messed up girl.”— Trey Songz, open.spotify.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
“Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word against a thousand actions.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“Listen, some people will never forgive you. Forgiveness isn't a part of their make-up, their DNA.”— Renaldo Nehemiah, bbc.co.uk