“Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.”
David Sedaris When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Source: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
“I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”
Variant: You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Genghis Khan (1162–1227) founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire
As quoted in Ta'Rikh-i-Jahan Gusha [History of the World Conqueror] by 'Ala-ad-Din 'Ata-Malik Juvaini (ca. 1252-1260), translated by J.A. Boyle (1958), p. 105
Context: O people, know that you have committed great sins, and that the great ones among you have committed these sins. If you ask me what proof I have for these words, I say it is because I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.
“I have committed the worst sin that can be committed. I have not been happy.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
He cometido el peor pecado que uno puede cometer. No he sido feliz.
"El Remordimiento" [Remorse] in La moneda de hierro [The Iron Coin], as quoted in Borges at Eighty : Conversations (1982) edited by Willis Barnstone, also in Hispanic Literature Criticism : Allende to Jiménez (1994), p. 298
“You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.”
Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes
Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 8 (p. 25)
John Chrysostom (349–407) important Early Church Father
Epist. i. ad Tim., 12, as cited in Francesco Saverio Nitti, Catholic Socialism (1895), p. 67
“I have never committed the least matter to Him that I have not had reason for endless praise.”
Anna Shipton (1815–1901) British religious writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 596.
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888–1927) Italian American anarchist executed by Massachusetts
Last words http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0823.html (April 15, 1920)