top of page

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

Dorothy Dix, American Journalist

Soul, Confession, Grave, Punishment

28

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

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

Exlpore more Soul quotes

"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Soul, Body, Brevity, Wit

"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Soul, Man, Worth

"The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Soul, Eye, Unconscious

"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Soul, Rainbow, Beautiful, Inside

"The divinity of the soul; life, light and love."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Soul, Divinity, Life, Light

"Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."

George Eliot, British Author

Soul, Memory, Expectation, Emotion

"Things of themselves cannot touch the soul at all. They have no entry to the soul, and cannot turn or move it. The soul alone turns and moves itself, making all externals presented to it cohere with the judgements it thinks worthy of itself."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

Soul, Judgment, Control, Power

"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

"Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Explore more quotes by Dorothy Dix

"There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears."

"The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age."

"Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry."

"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us."

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

bottom of page