Forgiveness quotes

“- Lee Phillips: Eddie is not demented. It was a one-time incident. This is a forgive and forget kind of thing.
- Gwen Harrison: He tried to kill me, Lee. Am I the only person who remembers that? Attempted murder doesn't get people's attention anymore?”
Billy Crystal - Lee Phillips
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Gwen Harrison

“- Melissa: Remember, this is the occasion for Clair and her sister and her mom to bury the hatchet and rediscover each other.
- Dana: I'd like to bury the hatchet with my sister... right in her head.”
Michelle Trachtenberg - Melissa
Lacey Chabert - Dana

“- Charlotte Bartlett: I shall never forgive myself.
- Lucy Honeychurch: You always say that, Charlotte, but you always do forgive yourself.”
Maggie Smith - Charlotte Bartlett, a Chaperon
Helena Bonham Carter - Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge

“A young and brilliant actress who could no longer find a spot in the theater, and it was for her more than for anyone else that I was able to go on. And I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives.”

Katharine Hepburn - Terry Randall

“I thought we were invincible. But now I know that the things that people in love do to each other, they remember. And if they stay together, it's not because they forget. It's because they forgive.”
Woody Harrelson - David Murphy

“What's the matter, cat got your tongue? To forgive is divine, they say. But I don't aspire to being an angel, know what I mean? You tried to kill me, I owe you for that. And I always try and pay what I owe. Be seeing you, Mr Kessler.”
Gene Davis - Warren Stacy

“I just hope that one day Kelly will be ready to see me again and I can finally tell her what I've only been able to say in my dreams. Until then, all I can do is wake up, take a shower, with soap, and try to forgive myself. If I can do that, then maybe others will forgive me too. I don't know if that will happen, but I guess I'll just have to...” (continue)(continue reading)

Joseph-Gordon Levitt - Chris Pratt

“- Leo: Dammit, Tom, I forgive you!
- Tom Reagan: I didn't ask for that and I don't want it. Good-bye, Leo.”
Albert Finney - Leo
Gabriel Byrne - Tom Reagan

“I was your final test of forgiveness and if you're listening to this, then you've failed. Now you must pay the price. The price for living for nothing but vengeance.”

Tobin Bell - Jigsaw

“With time, anything can be forgiven.”
Adrian Paul - Duncan McLeod

“Without forgiveness we're savages.”
Clive Owen - Larry

“Sometimes I wonder... will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize... God left this place a long time ago.”
Leonardo DiCaprio - Danny Archer

“- The Bride: You can relax for now. I'm not going to murder you in front of your child, okay?
- Vernita Green: That's being more rational than Bill led me to believe you were capable of.
- The Bride: It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality.”
Uma Thurman - The Bride
Vivica A. Fox - Vernita Green

“- The Nun: I have forgiven them.
- The Lieutenant: But do you have the right? You're not the only woman in the world. You're not even the only nun. Your forgiveness will leave blood in its wake. What if these guys do something like this again? To other women, other virgins? Old women who die from the shock? Do you have the right to forgive them?...” (continue)(continue reading)

Frankie Thorn - The Nun
Harvey Keitel - LT

“I order you to forgive yourself.”
Liam Neeson - Valjean

“I forgive you for Ray. I forgive you. That was a long time ago, and I know I wasn't always the king of kings. I let you down. I'm sorry, Helen.”

Jack Nicholson - Warren Schmidt

“It seems in today's world the power to absolve debt is greater than the power of forgiveness.”
Donal Donnelly - Archbishop Gilday

“- Dan: You love her like a dog loves its owner.
- Larry: And the owner loves the dog for so doing.
- Dan: You'll hurt her. You'll never forgive her.
- Larry: Of course I'll forgive her. I have forgiven her.”
Jude Law - Dan
Clive Owen - Larry

“Leo, this entire area is surrounded. You cannot get away! Because my arm is long and my vengeance it total and may God forgive you, because I certainly won't.”
Ed Begley - Gen. Midwinter

“- Willy: What is she doin'?
- Joey: Oh, my God. She's prayin'.
- Deloris: Lord, I want you to forgive Willy and Joey, because they know not what they do. They're only doin' what Vince told 'em to do, because Vince is too chicken to do it himself! So he's called upon these two men to take care of his business! So I want you to forgive them, Lord.”

Richard Portnow - Willy
Robert Miranda - Joey
Whoopi Goldberg - Deloris

“- Elmer Fishpaw: What the hell are you doing?
- Francine Fishpaw: Saying my prayers. Asking God to forgive you for showing dirty movies!
- Elmer Fishpaw: Oh, I don't believe this! I gotta' goddamned nun for a wife!”
David Samson - Elmer Fishpaw
Divine - Francine Fishpaw

“- Brigid O'Shaughnessy: You know down deep in your heart and in spite of anything I've done I love you.
- Samuel Spade: I don't care who loves who! I won't play the sap for you. I won't walk in Thursby's - and I don't know how many other's - footsteps. You killed Miles and you're going over for it.”
Brigid O'Shaughnessy - Brigid O'Shaughnessy
Humphrey Bogart - Samuel Spade

“Lord in Heaven, sorry for all the bad shit I've done, all the people I've trampled on, I hope they forgive me, I won't do it again, that's for sure.”
Harry Dean Stanton - Toot-Toot

“Oh, God. This I did not intend. I saw a light but did not know where it was headed. I have tresspassed on your domain. I've gone further than man should go. Forgive me.”
Fredric March - Dr. Henry Jekyll

“- Johann: It was a mistake. I didn't... It was... It... All of a sudden... As if... It won't ever happen again, sir. You can depend on it. I swear.
- Captain: It's all right, Johann.
- Johann: No court-martial?
- Captain: Get some sleep.”

Erwin Leder - Johann
Jürgen Prochnow - Capt.-Lt. Henrich Lehmann-Willenbrock - Der Alte