Confession Quotes

435 Confession quotes by 341 unique authors

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. — Mahatma Gandhi
Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution. — Germaine Greer
You are committed to what you confess. — Edwin Louis Cole
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. — Dorothy Dix
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. — St. Jerome
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There… — Samuel Lover
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. — Karl Marx
There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said. — Joni Mitchell
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing. — Helen Rowland
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. — Fulton J. Sheen
Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession. — Georg Simmel
It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange. — Zadie Smith
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think… — Billy Sunday
I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession… — Taylor Swift
Faith never makes a confession. — Henry David Thoreau
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than… — Peter De Vries
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. — George Washington
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. — Daniel Webster
A confession has to be part of your new life. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions. — Tiger Woods
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the… — James A. Baldwin
Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear… — Billy Collins
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures. — Oscar Wilde

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