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Quotes About Confession

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.
~ Ford Frick
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
~ Oscar Wilde
When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
~ Oscar Wilde
Yes Harry I believe that is true. I cannot help telling you things. You have a curious influence over me. If I ever did a crime I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me.
~ Oscar Wilde
Kendini suçlaman?n rahatlat?c? bir yan? vard?. Kendimizi suçlad???m?zda baÅŸka hiç kimsenin bizi suçlamaya hakk? olmaz. Rahip deÄŸil ancak itiraf?n kendisidir bizi ba???layan.
~ Oscar Wilde
What would you say, Harry, if I told you that I had murdered Basil? said the younger man. He watched him intently after he had spoken.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
~ Oscar Wilde
Cuando nos confesamos de algo, pensamos que nadie más tiene derecho a culparnos. Es la confesión, no el sacerdote, lo que nos absuelve
~ Oscar Wilde
I didn't have a motive. I didn't to it. You did. What are you writing? Motive - Don't know. What do you mean Don't know ? I tell you I hadn't got one. Put None. You must have one. If you kill people without one, you're mad.
~ Pamela Branch
A story untold could be the one that kills you
~ Pat Conroy
For here it was now, as clear as it had ever been. And, worst of all, he was aware of an impulse to tell Bruno everything, the stranger on the train who would listen, commiserate, and forget. The idea of telling Bruno began to comfort him. Bruno was not the ordinary stranger on the train by any means. He was cruel and corrupt enough himself to appreciate a story like that of his first love.
~ Patricia Highsmith
REGLA 3 Si usted está equivocado, admítalo rápida y enfáticamente.
~ Dale Carnegie
If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
~ Dale Carnegie
Si usted está equivocado, admítalo rápida y enfáticamente.
~ Dale Carnegie
Sin always splits the self to some degree, yes. You know that you have harmed yourself and others, but you probably are not going to come to terms with that because you're carrying on a charade of righteousness, even if you don't believe it. So confession is very deep in the process of discovering the soul.
~ Dallas Willard
This can also be a time of confession, in which you ask for the strength to deal with the failures you experience day by day.
~ Dallas Willard
I grew up Catholic. I know sin.
~ Dan Brown
extralimitarse»: una técnica de interrogatorio inventada por los primeros romanos para arrancar confesiones a delincuentes que sospechaban que mentían. El método era de una sencillez engañosa. Exponer la información que uno quiere que se confiese. Después alegar algo peor. El objetivo era darle al oponente la oportunidad de elegir el mal menor, en ese caso la verdad.
~ Dan Brown
Father Lenar Hoyt stepped away from the wall where he had been leaning, raised his right hand with thumb and little finger touching, three fingers raised, the gesture somehow including himself as well as those before him, and said softly, 'Ego te absolvo.
~ Dan Simmons
I needed to confess my sin: I was once again having impure thoughts about saving the world.
~ Daniel Quinn
What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.
~ Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche
No fim, o desejo era como uma doença, uma loucura, ou ambas. Deixei de pensar nos outros, desfrutava o prazer onde quer que o encontrasse e seguia adiante. Esqueci que cada pequena ação cotidiana pode fazer ou desfazer um caráter e que tudo aquilo que fazemos no segredo da alcova, teremos que confessá-lo um dia, gritando do alto dos telhados.
~ Wilde, Oscar
?nsan?n yapabilece?i itiraflar?n en ac?kl?s?, kendi sersemli?inin itiraf?ndan ba?kas? de?ildir.
~ Wilkie Collins
Her heart beat as if it would suffocate her. She had kept her promise bravely. The whole story of her life, from the time of the home-wreck at Combe-Raven to the time when she had destroyed the Secret Trust in her sister's presence, had been all laid before him. Nothing that she had done, nothing even that she had thought, had been concealed from his knowledge.
~ Wilkie Collins