Confessional Quotes
41 quotes by 37 authors
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A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the…
— John Irving
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['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably…
— James Taylor
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For a female to write about her feelings, and then be portrayed as some clingy, insane, desperate girlfriend in need of making you marry her…
— Taylor Swift
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I find it relatively easy to keep my clothes on because I don't really feel like taking them off. It's not an urge I have.…
— Taylor Swift
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We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional.
— Big Boi
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Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."
— Robert Breault
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I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord’s mercy which spurs us…
— Pope Francis
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A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by…
— Nelson Algren
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We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the…
— Gerhard
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Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.
— Mark Buchanan
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The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
— Michael Pollan
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Most of the songs are, in a roundabout way, actually addressed to myself, there's a certain aspect of the songs that's very confessional, very unadulterated...It…
— Alanis Morissette
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I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth…
— Anne Lamott
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Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.
— Andy Greenwald
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Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
— Joni Mitchell
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I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a slightly older school of thought: 'give 'em…
— Ben Mendelsohn
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The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
— Andrew Bird
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A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
— J D Salinger
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The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.
— Pope Francis
Who Wrote These Confessional Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 41 Confessional Quotes, led by these top contributors: