“I forgive the stillborn hopes,”

“Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.”

“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”

“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.”

“I know I will regret this for the rest of my life. I'm absolutely gutted. I hope in time I can earn back respect and forgiveness.”

“Forgiveness, reader, is, I think, something very much like hope and love - a powerful, wonderful thing.
And a ridiculous thing, too.”

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”

“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
While the world's tide is bearing me along;
Other desires and other hopes beset me,
Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!”

“Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.”

“Candles forgive fire, rivers forgive the sea, age forgives time, life forgives death. But can I forgive your passing?”