Confession Quotes

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. View quote
Dorothy Dix
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
The confession of one humbles all. View quote
Antonio Porchia
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
A confession has to be part of your new life. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy. View quote
Peter De Vries
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. View quote
Daniel Webster
Advice is always a confession. View quote
André Maurois
The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues. View quote
William Hazlitt
I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution. (G. K. Chesterton)
Acting is a form of confession. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
Art has to be a kind of confession. View quote
James Baldwin
I hope I never need to believe in God. It would be an awful confession of failure. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time. View quote
Karl Marx
The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent. View quote
Karl Marx
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. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others. View quote
William Hazlitt
When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good-and please don't regard me as wholly evil!" View quote
Ayn Rand
These pages are not my confession; they're my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, that of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical. View quote
Georges Bataille
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up. View quote
James Baldwin
It is confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)