Quotes on Absolution

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

There is nothing absolute and final. If everything were ironclad, all the rules absolute and everything structured so no paradox or irony existed, you couldn't move. One could say that man sneaks through the crack where paradox exists.

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.