Confessional Quotes

41 Confessional quotes by 37 unique authors

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
['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
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
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
We missed a lot of church, so the music is our confessional. — Big Boi
Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed." — Robert Breault
I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lordâ€™s mercy which spurs us… — Pope Francis
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
We are justified freely, for Christâ€™s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works.Â To the… — Gerhard
Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets. — Mark Buchanan
The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional. — Pope Benedict XVI
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. — Michael Pollan
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
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
Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock. — Andy Greenwald
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell
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
The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter. — Andrew Bird
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
The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better. — Pope Francis

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