A confession has to be part of your new life.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

Acting is a form of confession.
Tallulah Bankhead

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx

Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Helen Rowland

But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
Ernestine Rose

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix

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.
Peter De Vries

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mohandas Gandhi

Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
Richard Rosen

Faith never makes a confession.
Henry David Thoreau

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
Alison Bechdel

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
Maria Monk

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
Jean Baudrillard

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.
Giacomo Casanova

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!
Mercedes McCambridge

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

My whole act is confession.
Shelley Berman

Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion.
Roland Barthes