--- title: "13 Confessor Quotes by 11 authors" description: "Browse 13 Confessor quotes by 11 authors. Discover the best Confessor sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/simona-panova-23558_betray_you-can-speak-to-me-like-you-haven-t-spo_922717.jpg" --- > [“You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simona-panova/you-can-speak-to-me-like-you-haven-t-spoken-even-to-yourself/) [Simona Panova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simona-panova/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/simona-panova-23558_betray_you-can-speak-to-me-like-you-haven-t-spo_922717.jpg) > [“«"The trickster", the Mother Confessor said. "I told you that was our name for him"»”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-goodkind/the-trickster-the-mother-confessor-said-i-told-you-that-was-our-name/) [Terry Goodkind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-goodkind/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df6/terry-goodkind-924_confessor_the-trickster-the-mother-confessor-said_2655225.jpg) > [“ My confessor? ... Neither he, nor anyone else, God is my confessor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucila-gamero-de-medina/my-confessor-neither-he-nor-anyone-else-god-is-my-confessor/) Lucila Gamero de Medina [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/518/lucila-gamero-de-medina-73700_confessor_my-confessor-neither-he-nor-anyone-else_367848.jpg) > [A mystic is a hysteric who has met her confessor before her doctor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/umberto-eco/a-mystic-is-a-hysteric-who-has-met-her-confessor-before-her-doctor/) [Umberto Eco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/umberto-eco/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b1/umberto-eco-313_confessor_a-mystic-is-a-hysteric-who-has-met-her-c_2943955.jpg) > [Once I'm comfortable with someone, I'm not reserved. I'm a compulsive confessor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-connelly/once-i-m-comfortable-with-someone-i-m-not-reserved-i-m-a-compulsive/) [Jennifer Connelly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-connelly/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cea/jennifer-connelly-10722_comfortable_once-i-m-comfortable-with-someone-i-m-no_1736719.jpg) > [“Please meet Magda Searus, the first Confessor.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-goodkind/please-meet-magda-searus-the-first-confessor/) [Terry Goodkind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-goodkind/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b35/terry-goodkind-924_confessor_please-meet-magda-searus-the-first-confe_504535.jpg) > [How could I share the way my heart was breaking when my confessor didn’t believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-hopkins/how-could-i-share-the-way-my-heart-was-breaking-when-my-confessor/) [Ellen Hopkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-hopkins/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/ellen-hopkins-475_believe_how-could-i-share-the-way-my-heart-was-b_1910516.png) > [“I dream of an ideal confessor to tell everything to, spill it all: I dream of a blasé saint.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-cioran/i-dream-of-an-ideal-confessor-to-tell-everything-to-spill-it-all-i/) [Emil Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-cioran/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7cb/emil-cioran-523_confessor_i-dream-of-an-ideal-confessor-to-tell-ev_819495.jpg) > [“It struck Magda as ironic that those who professed to want peace the most were quickest to use bloodshed to try to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-goodkind/it-struck-magda-as-ironic-that-those-who-professed-to-want-peace-the/) [Terry Goodkind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-goodkind/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fc/terry-goodkind-924_bloodshed_it-struck-magda-as-ironic-that-those-who_2693358.jpg) > [To acquire and preserve the virtue of chastity, we have need of a good and experienced confessor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-neri/to-acquire-and-preserve-the-virtue-of-chastity-we-have-need-of-a-good/) [Philip Neri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-neri/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/749/philip-neri-12607_acquire_to-acquire-and-preserve-the-virtue-of-ch_1735155.jpg) > [“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yevgeny-yevtushenko/how-can-the-confessor-teach-those-who-are-lost-and-sick-at-heart-when/) [Yevgeny Yevtushenko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yevgeny-yevtushenko/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24e/yevgeny-yevtushenko-14024_confessing_how-can-the-confessor-teach-those-who-ar_2494724.jpg) > [“She needed a confessor! Would she find it there, in the world of the artists? All over the world they had their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anais-nin/she-needed-a-confessor-would-she-find-it-there-in-the-world-of-the/) [Anaïs Nin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anais-nin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/881/anais-nin-288_art_she-needed-a-confessor-would-she-find-it_2859941.png) > [“And there it was. The prim face of censure he’d been seeking. A strange sense of satisfaction descended on him. Divine justice,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tessa-dare/and-there-it-was-the-prim-face-of-censure-he-d-been-seeking-a-strange/) [Tessa Dare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tessa-dare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/525/tessa-dare-564_beautiful-woman_and-there-it-was-the-prim-face-of-censur_70117.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/confessor/#itemlist", "name": "Confessor Quotes", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Simona Panova" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simona-panova/you-can-speak-to-me-like-you-haven-t-spoken-even-to-yourself/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/simona-panova-23558_betray_you-can-speak-to-me-like-you-haven-t-spo_922717.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/simona-panova-23558_betray_you-can-speak-to-me-like-you-haven-t-spo_922717.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/simona-panova-23558_betray_you-can-speak-to-me-like-you-haven-t-spo_922717.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.” — Simona Panova", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“«\"The trickster\", the Mother Confessor said. \"I told you that was our name for him\"»”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Terry Goodkind" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-goodkind/the-trickster-the-mother-confessor-said-i-told-you-that-was-our-name/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df6/terry-goodkind-924_confessor_the-trickster-the-mother-confessor-said_2655225.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df6/terry-goodkind-924_confessor_the-trickster-the-mother-confessor-said_2655225.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df6/terry-goodkind-924_confessor_the-trickster-the-mother-confessor-said_2655225.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The trickster\", the Mother Confessor said. \"I told you that was our name for him” — Terry Goodkind", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“ My confessor? ... 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Would she find it there, in the world of the artists? All over the world they had their meeting places, their affiliations, their rules of membership, their kingdoms, their chiefs, their secret channels of communication. They established common beliefs in certain painters, certain musicians, certain writers. They were the misplaced persons too, unwanted at home usually, or repudiated by their families. 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