(878 quotes found)
“. . . and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . .”
William Faulkner
“The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.”
Oscar Wilde
“If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life”
Albert Camus
“Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving”
William Shakespeare
“Sin is geographical.”
Bertrand Russell
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.”
Victor Hugo
“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”
Howard Dean
“The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.”
Iris Murdoch
“What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.”
