Confession Quotes - Page 3

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 an end.

I own the soft impeachment.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Confession makes you a more trustworthy narrator.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.

Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

Faith never makes a confession.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

Confession is a sacred rite enhanced by allegory, exaggeration, and lies.

Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.

I have a confession: I have no faith.

My nature is a quagmire of unresolved confessions.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.