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That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn’t forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can’t stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That’s my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Smiley", "slug": "jane-smiley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley" }, "book": { "title": "A Thousand Acres", "slug": "a-thousand-acres", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/a-thousand-acres" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jane_Smiley#A_Thousand_Acres_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:25" }, { "id": "a6d27317-92d5-432b-b475-dd7af93779e9", "slug": "sometime-the-hating", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-lomax/the-railway-man/sometime-the-hating", "text": "Sometime the hating has to stop.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Eric Lomax", "slug": "eric-lomax", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-lomax" }, "book": { "title": "The Railway Man", "slug": "the-railway-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eric-lomax/the-railway-man" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Lomax#The_Railway_Man_(1995)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:06:01" }, { "id": "1b0a791b-deec-4590-8501-785d0e4ea16b", "slug": "the-heart-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/susanna-rowson/charlotte-temple/the-heart-that", "text": "... the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow creatures.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Susanna Rowson", "slug": "susanna-rowson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/susanna-rowson" }, "book": { "title": "Charlotte Temple", "slug": "charlotte-temple", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/susanna-rowson/charlotte-temple" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "kindness", "slug": "kindness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Susanna_Rowson#Charlotte_Temple_(ed._1814)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:46" }, { "id": "522a75fe-52ee-422a-a2c6-64a1b6a8021f", "slug": "forgiveness-is-this", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know/forgiveness-is-this", "text": "Forgiveness is this act of love where you say to someone, ‘You’re an imperfect being and I still love you.’ You want to have this energy of ‘We’re not giving up on each other; we’re in this for the long haul. You hurt me. And, yes, I hurt you. And I’m sorry, but you’re still mine.’", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephanie Foo", "slug": "stephanie-foo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo" }, "book": { "title": "What My Bones Know", "slug": "what-my-bones-know", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephanie_Foo#What_My_Bones_Know_(2022)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:02" }, { "id": "4e431858-cecb-4132-bf85-f5930aa233e5", "slug": "punishment-excludes-and", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know/punishment-excludes-and", "text": "Punishment excludes and excises. It demolishes relationships and community. I could not believe it had taken me this long to realize that punishment is not love. In fact, it is the opposite of love. Forgiveness is love. Spaciousness is love.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephanie Foo", "slug": "stephanie-foo", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo" }, "book": { "title": "What My Bones Know", "slug": "what-my-bones-know", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephanie-foo/what-my-bones-know" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "punishment", "slug": "punishment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/punishment" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephanie_Foo#What_My_Bones_Know_(2022)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:02" }, { "id": "45a7f404-fafd-4673-8b4f-f0f40e6aba88", "slug": "a-path-scented", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass/a-path-scented", "text": "A path scented with sweetgrass leads to a landscape of forgiveness and healing for all who need it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robin Wall Kimmerer", "slug": "robin-wall-kimmerer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer" }, "book": { "title": "Braiding Sweetgrass", "slug": "braiding-sweetgrass", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robin-wall-kimmerer/braiding-sweetgrass" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 212, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robin_Wall_Kimmerer#Braiding_Sweetgrass_(2013)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:04:31" }, { "id": "5e3a7be8-96c5-4fec-9dcc-7ea96d679f47", "slug": "kill-if-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/irwin-shaw/the-young-lions/kill-if-you", "text": "Kill, if you must, because in our weakness and in our error, we have found no other road to peace, but kill remorsefully, kill with a sense of sorrow, kill with economy for the immortal souls who leave this life in battle, carry mercy in your cartridge cases, forgiveness in your knapsacks, kill without revenge, because vengeance is not yours but the Lord’s, kill, knowing that each life you spend makes your life that much the poorer.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Irwin Shaw", "slug": "irwin-shaw", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/irwin-shaw" }, "book": { "title": "The Young Lions", "slug": "the-young-lions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/irwin-shaw/the-young-lions" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "war", "slug": "war", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "revenge", "slug": "revenge", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revenge" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Irwin_Shaw#The_Young_Lions_(1948)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:03:26" }, { "id": "9fb17e70-70a3-4d6e-82ea-8de559b611a0", "slug": "most-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng/little-fires-everywhere/most-of-the", "text": "“Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.” (chapter 15 p250)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Celeste Ng", "slug": "celeste-ng", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng" }, "book": { "title": "Little Fires Everywhere", "slug": "little-fires-everywhere", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/celeste-ng/little-fires-everywhere" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "remorse", "slug": "remorse", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/remorse" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Celeste_Ng#Little_Fires_Everywhere_(2017)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:48" }, { "id": "0d974e0a-567a-46c3-874c-5c0f35585d5d", "slug": "just-work-work", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fausto-brizzi/100-days-of-happiness/just-work-work", "text": "Just work, work, work, even at the risk of making mistakes. And if and when you do make mistakes, and you do hurt someone, ask for forgiveness. Asking forgiveness and admitting you've made a mistake is the hardest thing of all. But if someone else does you good, remember it always. Showing gratitude is every bit as complicated.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fausto Brizzi", "slug": "fausto-brizzi", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fausto-brizzi" }, "book": { "title": "100 Days of Happiness", "slug": "100-days-of-happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fausto-brizzi/100-days-of-happiness" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "mistakes", "slug": "mistakes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mistakes" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "gratitude", "slug": "gratitude", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gratitude" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fausto_Brizzi#100_Days_of_Happiness_(2013)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:41" }, { "id": "32a7b575-8325-40b2-99a2-de989ab3f0ea", "slug": "you-were-my-child", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated/you-were-my-child", "text": "You were my child. I should have protected you. I lived a lifetime in the moment I read those lines, a life that was not the one I had actually lived. I became a different person, who remembered a different childhood. I didn’t understand the magic of those words then, and I don’t understand it now. I know only this: that when my mother told me she had not been the mother to me that she wished she’d been, she became that mother for the first time.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Tara Westover", "slug": "tara-westover", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover" }, "book": { "title": "Educated", "slug": "educated", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/tara-westover/educated" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 272, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "mother", "slug": "mother", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mother" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tara_Westover#Educated_(2018)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:02:37" }, { "id": "807eac61-a07c-4804-b272-7fed1f66eafd", "slug": "satyagraha-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/marilyn-ferguson/the-aquarian-conspiracy/satyagraha-is-the", "text": "Satyagraha is the strategy of those who reject solutions that compromise the freedom or integrity of any participant. Gandhi always said it is the weapon of the strong because it requires heroic restraint and the courage to forgive. He turned the whole idea of power upside down. 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All you are doing is holding on to feelings of upset, anger and jealousy and that can never be good. 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Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Eckhart Tolle", "slug": "eckhart-tolle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle" }, "book": { "title": "The Power of Now", "slug": "the-power-of-now", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/the-power-of-now" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "resentment", "slug": "resentment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now#Chapter_9._Beyond_Happiness_and_Unhappiness_There_Is_Peace", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:01:03" }, { "id": "357d9b08-a60e-4ab0-b8f5-f8af2b7f2805", "slug": "its-always-easier", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/pushing-ice/its-always-easier", "text": "It’s always easier to hate than to forgive, isn’t it?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alastair Reynolds", "slug": "alastair-reynolds", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds" }, "book": { "title": "Pushing Ice", "slug": "pushing-ice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alastair-reynolds/pushing-ice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 233, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alastair_Reynolds#Pushing_Ice_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:40" }, { "id": "a01a8d72-55fc-495e-bb38-bdb71225c23a", "slug": "great-men-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/perry-anderson/spectrum/great-men-have", "text": "Great men have foibles for which they can be forgiven; including an occasional failure to see where their greatness lies, or what might diminish it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Perry Anderson", "slug": "perry-anderson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/perry-anderson" }, "book": { "title": "Spectrum", "slug": "spectrum", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/perry-anderson/spectrum" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Perry_Anderson#Spectrum:_From_Right_to_Left_in_the_World_of_Ideas_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:00:09" }, { "id": "31277f6f-8d2f-4f80-8dea-ce976862a953", "slug": "marriage-each-of-them", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-choice/marriage-each-of-them", "text": "Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Choice", "slug": "the-choice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-choice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 203, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "marriage", "slug": "marriage", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "compromise", "slug": "compromise", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compromise" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Choice_(2007)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:24" }, { "id": "e973f835-0617-4350-908e-f941c0a675db", "slug": "the-events-of-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-wedding/the-events-of-the", "text": "The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life, leading me to believe that while I've often overestimated what I could accomplish in a day, I had underestimated what I could do in a year. But most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nicholas Sparks", "slug": "nicholas-sparks", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks" }, "book": { "title": "The Wedding", "slug": "the-wedding", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nicholas-sparks/the-wedding" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 262, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nicholas_Sparks#The_Wedding_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:59:22" }, { "id": "f9d22252-8bd4-454e-9c4b-3098a539bece", "slug": "i-started-this", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/andrew-solomon/far-from-the-tree/i-started-this", "text": "I started this book to forgive my parents and ended it by becoming a parent. 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Forgiveness is difficult and it is hard for the losers to accept defeat and the victors to be magnanimous. The Act of Pardon, Indemnity and Oblivion, for crimes committed in and just after the [English] Civil War, which the Parliament passed in 1660, is all too rare in history, although today we are seeing more systematic attempts, in places such as Rwanda, Colombia, Northern Ireland and South Africa, at peace and reconciliation. More usual is what happened in Franco's Spain: \"a long uncivil peace\", as one historian described it. Order of a sort returns, as it did in Spain or Tito's Yugoslavia, but the bitter memories of the savagery and atrocities on both sides simply go underground. The Roman poet Horace warned of \"fire/smouldering under ashes\". The arguments over the past can still divide the Spanish today, as the recent furore over the fate of the memorial to General Franco in the Valle de los Caídos shows. In the former Yugoslavia, where memories are much rawer, it is difficult even to discuss what happened in the 1990s. Over a century and a half later, the American Civil War still casts its shadow, in the arguments over the flying of the Confederate flag or the statues of Confederate generals or the tangled racial politics and the lingering resentments of Southern whites.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Margaret MacMillan", "slug": "margaret-macmillan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-macmillan" }, "book": { "title": "War: How Conflict Shaped Us", "slug": "war-how-conflict-shaped-us", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-macmillan/war-how-conflict-shaped-us" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "war", "slug": "war", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_MacMillan#War:_How_Conflict_Shaped_Us_(2020)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:59" }, { "id": "91b8d8a7-a9f4-4269-83e6-3a496adb1ccd", "slug": "sins-can-be-forgiven", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/sins-can-be-forgiven", "text": "Sins can be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George RR Martin", "slug": "george-rr-martin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin" }, "book": { "title": "A Feast for Crows", "slug": "a-feast-for-crows", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "justice", "slug": "justice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "sin", "slug": "sin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sin" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#A_Feast_for_Crows_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:53" }, { "id": "777614d8-9208-481b-927d-99d2d23d99fe", "slug": "the-self-same-moment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-taylor-coleridge/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner/the-self-same-moment", "text": "The self-same moment I could pray; And from my neck so free The Albatross fell off, and sank Like lead into the sea.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge", "slug": "samuel-taylor-coleridge", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-taylor-coleridge" }, "book": { "title": "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner", "slug": "the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-taylor-coleridge/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "guilt", "slug": "guilt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner#Part_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:58:34" }, { "id": "e70e90ee-377d-47a1-8af6-35735ef44732", "slug": "theyll-never-forget", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-vandermeer/finch/theyll-never-forget", "text": "They’ll never forget, never forgive, no matter who the enemy is, son. Better just to start a new life. Be someone else.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jeff VanderMeer", "slug": "jeff-vandermeer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-vandermeer" }, "book": { "title": "Finch", "slug": "finch", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jeff-vandermeer/finch" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 303, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jeff_VanderMeer#Finch_(2009)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:24" }, { "id": "4d8a85ff-a080-43ec-b654-792d7e82638d", "slug": "when-we-know", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rafael-sabatini/scaramouche/when-we-know", "text": "When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive, madame. That is the profoundest religious truth that was ever written. It contains, in fact, a whole religion—the noblest religion any man could have to guide him.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Rafael Sabatini", "slug": "rafael-sabatini", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rafael-sabatini" }, "book": { "title": "Scaramouche", "slug": "scaramouche", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/rafael-sabatini/scaramouche" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rafael_Sabatini#Scaramouche_(1921)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:00" }, { "id": "07dde076-eb8a-4c1d-87c0-07405543afcd", "slug": "forgive-and-forget", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ted-chiang/exhalation/forgive-and-forget", "text": "“Forgive and forget” goes the expression, and for our idealized magnanimous selves, that was all you needed. But for our actual selves the relationship between those two actions isn’t so straightforward. In most cases we have to forget a little bit before we can forgive; when we no longer experienced the pain as fresh, the insult is easier to forgive, which in turn makes it less memorable, and so on. 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That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges – the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Eckhart Tolle", "slug": "eckhart-tolle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle" }, "book": { "title": "A New Earth", "slug": "a-new-earth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/a-new-earth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "evil", "slug": "evil", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_New_Earth#Chapter_5,_The_Pain_Body", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:55:04" }, { "id": "4cb3925e-ced9-495f-a2e9-63eb6514e278", "slug": "if-her-past", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/eckhart-tolle/stillness-speaks/if-her-past", "text": "If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. 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From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed, and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Fante", "slug": "john-fante", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fante" }, "book": { "title": "Ask The Dust", "slug": "ask-the-dust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-fante/ask-the-dust" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "faith", "slug": "faith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Fante#Ask_the_Dust_(1939)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:56" }, { "id": "c17ccea5-04a7-4f35-9f95-733cc45e0abe", "slug": "god-have-mercy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/god-have-mercy", "text": "God have mercy on his miserable soul! and make him see and feel his guilt — I ask no other vengeance! If he could but fully know and truly feel my wrongs I should be well avenged, and I could freely pardon all.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Anne Brontë", "slug": "anne-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", "slug": "the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "guilt", "slug": "guilt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "revenge", "slug": "revenge", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revenge" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB#The_Tenant_of_Wildfell_Hall_(1848)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:28" }, { "id": "bc2b3ca4-086a-45fa-953a-5a4dbe83e233", "slug": "since-i-love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/since-i-love", "text": "Since I love him so much, I can easily forgive him for loving himself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Anne Brontë", "slug": "anne-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", "slug": "the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "selfishness", "slug": "selfishness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/selfishness" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB#The_Tenant_of_Wildfell_Hall_(1848)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:54:28" }, { "id": "605a73ae-500a-4d0b-94aa-1198fe65e79d", "slug": "what-characterizes-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/gregory-david-roberts/shantaram/what-characterizes-the", "text": "What characterizes the human race more,’ Karla once asked me, ‘cruelty or the capacity to feel shame for it?’ I thought the question was acutely clever then, when I first heard it, but I’m lonelier and wiser now, and I know that it isn’t cruelty or shame that characterizes the human races. It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would’ve annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. 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I realized, somehow, through the screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It doesn't sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when it's all you have got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. 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Why should I forgive, when no one is asking me to? I mean, my parents refuse to understand and to know what they did to me. So why should I go on trying to understand and forgive my parents and whatever happened in their childhood, with things like psychoanalysis and transactional analysis? What's the use? Whom does it help? It doesn't help my parents to see the truth. But it does prevent me from experiencing my feelings, the feelings that would give me access to the truth. But under the bell-jar of forgiveness, feelings cannot and may not blossom freely.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alice Miller", "slug": "alice-miller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller" }, "book": { "title": "Breaking Down The Wall Of Silence", "slug": "breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "emotions", "slug": "emotions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emotions" }, { "name": "parents", "slug": "parents", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)#Breaking_Down_the_Wall_of_Silence_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:46" }, { "id": "99e5e8e7-82f9-41e8-a894-f758b6175c74", "slug": "the-majority-of-therapists", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence/the-majority-of-therapists", "text": "The majority of therapists work under the influence of destructive interpretations culled from both Western and Oriental religions, which preach forgiveness to the once-mistreated child. Thereby, they create a new vicious circle for people who, from their earliest years, have been caught in the vicious circle of pedagogy. For forgiveness does not resolve latent hatred and self-hatred but rather covers them up in a very dangerous way.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alice Miller", "slug": "alice-miller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller" }, "book": { "title": "Breaking Down The Wall Of Silence", "slug": "breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)#Breaking_Down_the_Wall_of_Silence_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:46" }, { "id": "8aaae5f6-8f72-45a2-b322-f0e241afd981", "slug": "it-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence/it-is-the", "text": "It is the resentment of the past, we are told, that is making us ill. In those by now familiar groups in which addicts and their relations go into therapy together, the following belief is invariably expressed. Only when you have forgiven your parents for everything they did to you can you get well. Even if both your parents were alcoholic, even if they mistreated, confused, exploited, beat, and totally overloaded you, you must forgive.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alice Miller", "slug": "alice-miller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller" }, "book": { "title": "Breaking Down The Wall Of Silence", "slug": "breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "parents", "slug": "parents", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/parents" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)#Breaking_Down_the_Wall_of_Silence_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:46" }, { "id": "151c337f-9ea2-4430-bdeb-1b90640182fd", "slug": "i-cannot-conceive", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence/i-cannot-conceive", "text": "I cannot conceive of a society in which children are not mistreated, but respected and lovingly cared for, that would develop an ideology of forgiveness for incomprehensible cruelties. This ideology is indivisible with the command \"Thou shalt not be aware\" [of the cruelty your parents inflicted to you] and with the repetition of that cruelty on the next generation.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Alice Miller", "slug": "alice-miller", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller" }, "book": { "title": "Breaking Down The Wall Of Silence", "slug": "breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/alice-miller/breaking-down-the-wall-of-silence" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "children", "slug": "children", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children" }, { "name": "cruelty", "slug": "cruelty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/cruelty" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)#Breaking_Down_the_Wall_of_Silence_(1991)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:53:46" }, { "id": "8dd4f77d-0a98-4be7-a823-d27db858cf68", "slug": "do-you-think-confessions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-barker/border-crossing/do-you-think-confessions", "text": "Do you think confession's the only route to redemption?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Pat Barker", "slug": "pat-barker", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-barker" }, "book": { "title": "Border Crossing", "slug": "border-crossing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-barker/border-crossing" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Barker#Border_Crossing_(2001)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:45" }, { "id": "dfcbb436-3efa-4a5e-bfdf-ff4c757455e8", "slug": "it-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/it-is-not", "text": "It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. … Read the New Testament, and observe what Christ says, and how he acts — make his word your rule, and his conduct your example. … Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charlotte Brontë", "slug": "charlotte-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Jane Eyre", "slug": "jane-eyre", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "hatred", "slug": "hatred", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Jane_Eyre_(1847)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:41" }, { "id": "65c9967c-24e2-44d6-9f5c-ed0f06cb7c4f", "slug": "what-a-singularly", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/what-a-singularly", "text": "What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart... Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charlotte Brontë", "slug": "charlotte-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Jane Eyre", "slug": "jane-eyre", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "resentment", "slug": "resentment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/resentment" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Jane_Eyre_(1847)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:41" }, { "id": "02a3c905-4684-4cb2-8e1d-6eb7f7492e1a", "slug": "i-can-so-clearly", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre/i-can-so-clearly", "text": "I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charlotte Brontë", "slug": "charlotte-bronte", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte" }, "book": { "title": "Jane Eyre", "slug": "jane-eyre", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charlotte-bronte/jane-eyre" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "crime", "slug": "crime", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/crime" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB#Jane_Eyre_(1847)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:41" }, { "id": "6788991c-ac85-4e75-b8a4-cbd5bf824a30", "slug": "he-wrote-in-his", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/the-passenger/he-wrote-in-his", "text": "He wrote in his little black book by the light of the oil lamp. Mercy is the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you. We pour water upon the child and name it. Not to fix it in our hearts but in our clutches. The daughters of men sit in half darkened closets inscribing messages upon their arms with razorblades and sleep is no part of their life.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cormac McCarthy", "slug": "cormac-mccarthy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy" }, "book": { "title": "The Passenger", "slug": "the-passenger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cormac-mccarthy/the-passenger" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "mercy", "slug": "mercy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/mercy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#The_Passenger_(2022)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:31" }, { "id": "1a187967-61a5-4642-bcb8-674fa32b5142", "slug": "i-was-trying", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-illearth-war/i-was-trying", "text": "I was trying to give her something, make it up to her somehow. But that doesn’t work. When you’ve hurt someone that badly, you can’t go around giving them gifts. That’s arrogant and cruel.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen Donaldson", "slug": "stephen-donaldson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson" }, "book": { "title": "The Illearth War", "slug": "the-illearth-war", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-donaldson/the-illearth-war" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 407, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "gifts", "slug": "gifts", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gifts" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Donaldson#The_Illearth_War_(1977)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:04" }, { "id": "36bdef64-cb73-4e30-8b4a-16fa728ab9fa", "slug": "oh-thou-who-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/oh-thou-who-man", "text": "Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd, Man's Forgiveness give — and take!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Omar Khayyam", "slug": "omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam" }, "book": { "title": "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam", "slug": "rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "sin", "slug": "sin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sin" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m#FitzGerald,_Rub%C3%A1iy%C3%A1t_of_Omar_Khayy%C3%A1m_(1859,_'68,_'72,_'79,_'89)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:52:01" }, { "id": "18248e36-6555-4415-98c3-7dcfc41cd0e0", "slug": "you-are-part", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/great-expectations/you-are-part", "text": "You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since, — on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hour of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. But, in this separation, I associate you only with the good; and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you must have done me far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may. O God bless you, God forgive you!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Charles Dickens", "slug": "charles-dickens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens" }, "book": { "title": "Great Expectations", "slug": "great-expectations", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/great-expectations" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "memory", "slug": "memory", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/memory" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens#Great_Expectations_(1860-1861)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:43" }, { "id": "71460b68-89b4-48ce-b7fc-c656021b0522", "slug": "she-knew-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/raising-the-stones/she-knew-that", "text": "She knew that ancient evils could be left behind. One could choose not to remember. One did not have to dig into the slime pits of old anger and old hate. Forgetting was possible.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sheri S. 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It is the sun going to his rest. Call for the grandest of all human sentiments, what is that? 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All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Kurt Vonnegut", "slug": "kurt-vonnegut", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut" }, "book": { "title": "The Sirens of Titan", "slug": "the-sirens-of-titan", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/the-sirens-of-titan" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 216, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "war", "slug": "war", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#The_Sirens_of_Titan_(1959)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:35" }, { "id": "6c96a90c-d97d-4ef5-a00f-ee0d376035fc", "slug": "which-is-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn/which-is-the", "text": "Which is the greater wrong? To hurt the unforgiving one, or hurt the one who has forgiven all?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Earthborn", "slug": "earthborn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthborn" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Earthborn_(1995)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:11" }, { "id": "7b226a47-1e5f-4771-93eb-96967ab2ac4e", "slug": "what-cannot-be-healed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthfall/what-cannot-be-healed", "text": "What cannot be healed has been healed. What was lost forever has been found. Therefore let that which cannot be forgiven be forgiven.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Orson Scott Card", "slug": "orson-scott-card", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card" }, "book": { "title": "Earthfall", "slug": "earthfall", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/earthfall" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Earthfall_(1995)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:10" }, { "id": "42f3431a-9e25-40da-a820-cadc0ac29599", "slug": "the-truth-is-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/damned/the-truth-is-you", "text": "\"The truth is you stay in Hell until you forgive yourself.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "slug": "chuck-palahniuk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk" }, "book": { "title": "Damned", "slug": "damned", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/damned" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "hell", "slug": "hell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Damned_(Palahniuk_novel)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:42:00" }, { "id": "6c998e10-52f6-420e-b72a-6443387287e2", "slug": "if-we-can", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/haunted/if-we-can", "text": "If we can forgive what's been done to us... If we can forgive what we've done to others... If we can leave our stories behind. Our being victims and villains. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "slug": "chuck-palahniuk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk" }, "book": { "title": "Haunted", "slug": "haunted", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/haunted" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk#Haunted_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:59" }, { "id": "0193cd84-bc02-4b57-b2c7-86e2e8dfec23", "slug": "we-should-forgive", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/haunted/we-should-forgive", "text": "\"We should forgive God...\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Chuck Palahniuk", "slug": "chuck-palahniuk", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk" }, "book": { "title": "Haunted", "slug": "haunted", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/chuck-palahniuk/haunted" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk#Haunted_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:59" }, { "id": "6443ca9f-0aff-4c73-8f31-dc9075a359f3", "slug": "i-remember-i-asked", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye/i-remember-i-asked", "text": "I remember I asked old Childs if he thought Judas, the one that betrayed Jesus and all, went to Hell after he committed suicide. Childs said certainly. That's exactly where I disagreed with him. I said I'd bet a thousand bucks that Jesus never sent old Judas to Hell. I still would, too, if I had a thousand bucks. I think any one of the Disciples would've sent him to Hell and all — and fast, too — but I'll bet anything Jesus didn't do it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J.D. Salinger", "slug": "jd-salinger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger" }, "book": { "title": "The Catcher in the Rye", "slug": "the-catcher-in-the-rye", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "betrayal", "slug": "betrayal", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye#Chapter_14", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:48" }, { "id": "738c57f0-a35f-455a-a30e-edc2ba9cd917", "slug": "to-my-disappointment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant/to-my-disappointment", "text": "To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Quentin Crisp", "slug": "quentin-crisp", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp" }, "book": { "title": "The Naked Civil Servant", "slug": "the-naked-civil-servant", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/quentin-crisp/the-naked-civil-servant" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "contempt", "slug": "contempt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/contempt" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quentin_Crisp#The_Naked_Civil_Servant_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:10" }, { "id": "78e3cdfb-c4c8-4e44-80ca-ff68ac989fde", "slug": "god-forgives-necessity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land/god-forgives-necessity", "text": "God forgives necessity.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert A. Heinlein", "slug": "robert-a-heinlein", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein" }, "book": { "title": "Stranger in a Strange Land", "slug": "stranger-in-a-strange-land", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-heinlein/stranger-in-a-strange-land" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land#Miscellaneous_quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:44" }, { "id": "8391a10e-6d39-486b-917e-38ab8aeea8a5", "slug": "nor-is-there", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-idiot/nor-is-there", "text": "Nor is there any embarrassment in the fact that we're ridiculous, isn't it true? For it's actually so, we are ridiculous, light-minded, with bad habits, we're bored, we don't know how to look, how to understand, we're all like that, all, you, and I, and they! Now, you're not offended when I tell you to your face that you're ridiculous? And if so, aren't you material? You know, in my opinion it's sometimes even good to be ridiculous, if not better: we can the sooner forgive each other, the sooner humble ourselves; we can't understand everything at once, we can't start right out with perfection! To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well. This I tell you, you, who have already been able to understand. .. and not understand ... so much. I'm not afraid for you now.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Idiot", "slug": "the-idiot", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-idiot" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "perfection", "slug": "perfection", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/perfection" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Idiot_(1868%E2%80%939)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:24" }, { "id": "4a469f79-216b-406f-958a-a5685da1d842", "slug": "is-there-in-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/is-there-in-the", "text": "Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to give it back as soon as possible. And that I am doing. It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Brothers Karamazov", "slug": "the-brothers-karamazov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "suffering", "slug": "suffering", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/suffering" }, { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Brothers_Karamazov_(1879%E2%80%931880)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:24" }, { "id": "08b87367-cbde-4703-abed-56f49001fc76", "slug": "there-is-no-sin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov/there-is-no-sin", "text": "There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth, which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Brothers Karamazov", "slug": "the-brothers-karamazov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-brothers-karamazov" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "god", "slug": "god", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/god" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "sin", "slug": "sin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sin" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Brothers_Karamazov_(1879%E2%80%931880)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:24" }, { "id": "4e274738-2263-41b4-b0ae-bb9364ab9277", "slug": "pass-by-us-and", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-idiot/pass-by-us-and", "text": "Pass by us, and forgive us our happiness.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "slug": "fyodor-dostoyevsky", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky" }, "book": { "title": "The Idiot", "slug": "the-idiot", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/the-idiot" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "happiness", "slug": "happiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fyodor_Dostoyevsky#The_Idiot_(1868%E2%80%939)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:23" }, { "id": "728f38d7-dc71-42a6-bca2-cef6bada51b1", "slug": "farewell-good-thief", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-hobbit/farewell-good-thief", "text": "\"Farewell, good thief,\" he said. \"I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "J. R. R. Tolkien", "slug": "j-r-r-tolkien", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien" }, "book": { "title": "The Hobbit", "slug": "the-hobbit", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-hobbit" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "wealth", "slug": "wealth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wealth" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Hobbit#Chapter_XVIII:_The_Return_Journey", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:40:19" }, { "id": "1501a17d-a01a-49b4-ad09-abff355c6bd9", "slug": "stevens-himself-hating", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/the-mansion/stevens-himself-hating", "text": "... Stevens himself hating horses even more than dogs, rating the horse an unassailable first in loathing since though both were parasites, the dog at least had the grace to be a sycophant too; it at least fawned on you and so kept you healthily ashamed of the human race. But the real reason was, though neither the horse nor the dog ever forgot anything, the dog at least forgave you; and his, Stevens's, thought was that what the world needed was more forgiving.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Faulkner", "slug": "william-faulkner", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner" }, "book": { "title": "The Mansion", "slug": "the-mansion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/the-mansion" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "animals", "slug": "animals", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/animals" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "dogs", "slug": "dogs", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/dogs" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Faulkner#The_Mansion_(1959)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:47" }, { "id": "99d675eb-a0cc-41e5-9384-217b30adb187", "slug": "a-young-man-on", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/a-young-man-on", "text": "A young man, on the other hand, brought up in happy innocence, is drawn by the first stirrings of nature to the tender and affectionate passions; his warm heart is touched by the sufferings of his fellow-creatures; he trembles with delight when he meets his comrade, his arms can embrace tenderly, his eyes can shed tears of pity; he learns to be sorry for offending others through his shame at causing annoyance. If the eager warmth of his blood makes him quick, hasty, and passionate, a moment later you see all his natural kindness of heart in the eagerness of his repentance; he weeps, he groans over the wound he has given; he would atone for the blood he has shed with his own; his anger dies away, his pride abases itself before the consciousness of his wrong-doing. Is he the injured party, in the height of his fury an excuse, a word, disarms him; he forgives the wrongs of others as whole-heartedly as he repairs his own. Adolescence is not the age of hatred or vengeance; it is the age of pity, mercy, and generosity. Yes, I maintain, and I am not afraid of the testimony of experience, a youth of good birth, one who has preserved his innocence up to the age of twenty, is at that age the best, the most generous, the most loving, and the most lovable of men. You never heard such a thing; I can well believe that philosophers such as you, brought up among the corruption of the public schools, are unaware of it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" }, { "name": "compassion", "slug": "compassion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/compassion" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:34" }, { "id": "453c4c2a-b91a-491c-8722-dffbc28c5522", "slug": "a-woman-can", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence/a-woman-can", "text": "“A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her,” he said, “but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Somerset Maugham", "slug": "william-somerset-maugham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham" }, "book": { "title": "The Moon And Sixpence", "slug": "the-moon-and-sixpence", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-moon-and-sixpence" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 142, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "sacrifice", "slug": "sacrifice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sacrifice" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#The_Moon_and_Sixpence_(1919)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:26" }, { "id": "3498b750-830b-4162-993e-506da2509ec9", "slug": "and-yet-catholicism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life/and-yet-catholicism", "text": "And yet Catholicism does not abandon ethics. No! No modern religion can leave ethics on one side. But our religion — although its doctors may protest against this — is fundamentally and for the most part a compromise between eschatology and ethics; it is eschatology pressed into the service of ethics. What else but this is that atrocity of the eternal pains of hell, which agrees so ill with the Pauline apocatastasis? Let us bear in mind these words which the Theologica Germanica, the manual of mysticism that Luther read, puts into the mouth of God: \"If I must recompense your evil, I must recompense it with good, for I am and have no other.\" And Christ said: \"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do,\" and there is no man who perhaps knows what he does.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Miguel de Unamuno", "slug": "miguel-de-unamuno", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno" }, "book": { "title": "Tragic Sense of Life", "slug": "tragic-sense-of-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/miguel-de-unamuno/tragic-sense-of-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "religion", "slug": "religion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" }, { "name": "hell", "slug": "hell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno#IV_:_The_Essence_of_Catholicism", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:21" }, { "id": "862e023c-0e80-4030-9452-b41b04f40a4a", "slug": "my-object-then", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/my-object-then", "text": "\"My object then,\" replied Darcy, \"was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_51-60", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:53" }, { "id": "3944a029-aa73-436d-8f3f-781ec694b809", "slug": "i-remember-hearing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/i-remember-hearing", "text": "\"I remember hearing you once say, Mr. Darcy, that you hardly ever forgave, that your resentment once created was unappeasable. You are very cautious, I suppose, as to its being created.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Pride and Prejudice", "slug": "pride-and-prejudice", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "anger", "slug": "anger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pride_and_Prejudice#Chapters_11-20", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:52" }, { "id": "cfc97a02-44a9-42bc-9651-c3bb09412892", "slug": "and-what-if-i-dont", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/and-what-if-i-dont", "text": "And what if I don't want forgiveness?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Erica Jong", "slug": "erica-jong", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong" }, "book": { "title": "How to Save Your Own Life", "slug": "how-to-save-your-own-life", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Erica_Jong#How_to_Save_Your_Own_Life_(1977)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:40" }, { "id": "28f9ee99-efb0-4a3f-afb6-47db444878ef", "slug": "if-one-by-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire/if-one-by-one", "text": "If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Robert Frost", "slug": "robert-frost", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost" }, "book": { "title": "New Hampshire", "slug": "new-hampshire", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-frost/new-hampshire" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "relationships", "slug": "relationships", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships" }, { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Frost#New_Hampshire_(1923)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:37" }, { "id": "f772b7bf-c76a-47da-bf51-94f9254904e3", "slug": "my-general-meaning", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/heretics/my-general-meaning", "text": "My general meaning touching the three virtues of which I have spoken will now, I hope, be sufficiently clear. They are all three paradoxical, they are all three practical, and they are all three paradoxical because they are practical. it is the stress of ultimate need, and a terrible knowledge of things as they are, which led men to set up these riddles, and to die for them. Whatever may be the meaning of the contradiction, it is the fact that the only kind of hope that is of any use in a battle is a hope that denies arithmetic. Whatever may be the meaning of the contradiction, it is the fact that the only kind of charity which any weak spirit wants, or which any generous spirit feels, is the charity which forgives the sins that are like scarlet. Whatever may be the meaning of faith, it must always mean a certainty about something we cannot prove. Thus, for instance, we believe by faith in the existence of other people.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "G. 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Temperance consists in finding out the proper limit of a particular indulgence and adhering to that. But charity means pardoning what is unpardonable, or it is no virtue at all. Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "G. 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Ought we not to forgive others much, my friend, if we wish to merit forgiveness ourselves?", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Emile Zola", "slug": "emile-zola", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola" }, "book": { "title": "Nana", "slug": "nana", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/nana" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "forgiveness", "slug": "forgiveness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Zola#Nana_(1880)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:38:10" } ] }