Confession Quotes

435 Confession quotes by 341 unique authors

There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the… — Bret Easton Ellis
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we… — Paulo Coelho
Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to consider themselves very… — Leo Tolstoy
All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating… — Billy Collins
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her… — Charlie Huston
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France
It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a… — Betty Smith
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness — Muriel Rukeyser
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become — Milan Kundera
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! — Edgar Allan Poe
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything. He’d told me… — Claudia Gray
He had never missed God or the hope of heaven, but he had dearly wanted confession to rest his mind, Communion to let him touch… — Peter S. Beagle
Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it… — P. C. Cast
Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away. — Madonna Ciccone
How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew… — Graham Greene
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject. — Ira Levin
She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of… — Amy Bloom
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. — Oscar Wilde
You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And… — Philip Roth
Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships. — C.D. Payne
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,… — Oscar Wilde

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