Quotes about forgiveness
53 quotes from 39 people
Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Josh Billings1818–1885Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873) (p. 235)
William Blake1757–1827Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820), Ch. 4, plate 91, line 1
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCDhammapada
Dale Carnegie1888–1955How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), Part 1: Fundamental Techniques in Handling People, p. 36.Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880), Book II, Chapter 3 (trans. Constance Garnett)In contextMan cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter IIIIn context
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Poems (1920), “Gerontion”Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost1874–1963In the Clearing (1962), “Forgive, O Lord”Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost1874–1963Letter to Louis Untermeyer (July 8, 1915)The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948“Interview to the Press” in Karachi about the execution of Bhagat Singh (23 March 1931); published in Young India (2 April 1931), reprinted in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi Online Vol. 51
