Zoran Drvenkar

Sorry means you feel the pulse of other people's pain as well as your own, and saying it means you take a share of it. And so it binds us together, makes us trodden and sodden as one another. Sorry is a lot of things. It's a hole refilled. A debt repaid. Sorry is the wake of misdeed. It's the crippling ripple of consequence. Sorry is sadness, just as knowing is sadness. Sorry is sometimes self-pity. But Sorry, really, is not about you. It's theirs to take or leave.

To me, what's important is not what happened, but how someone feels about what happened. If you feel differently from the person who feels wronged, then you have to talk. If you don't, then maybe the relationship is over.

You want to see the worst in the person you once loved. You want to hurt them like they hurt you. But the truth is, you loved them. And no matter how much you hate them now, part of you always will.

Sometimes the hardest part about saying sorry is realizing that you were wrong in the first place.

Sorry is only the beginning, but it's not enough. You have to prove it with your actions, not just your words.

Apologizing doesn't always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

Regret is the ghost of the past that haunts you when you don't make amends.

Apologies are like band-aids; they cover the wound, but they don't heal it.

Saying sorry is easy, but proving it is hard. It takes time, effort, and a willingness to change.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting. It means letting go of the pain and moving forward.

Apologies without change are just empty words.

The weight of an apology can never be measured, but its impact can be life-changing.