Human beings Quote by Ted Hughes

Why is it so hard for us to confess are feelings

— Cierra

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

— John Dryden

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a…

— Tea Obreht

I have replaced my instinct for secrecy with an instinct for confession.

— Melissa Febos

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

— Philip Roth

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.

— Joni Mitchell

Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

— John Galt

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

— Charles Durning

It's not a confession if no one reads it. It's just an unshared secret.

— Colleen Hoover

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The third big idea is that we confess our sins to someone close to us--a friend or our spouse. I don't mean a public…

— Ted Haggard