Penance in Art and Fiction
Films:
- Penance (film) (2009)
- Sadhna (1958) aka "The Penance"
- The Bell of Penance (1912)
- A Daughter of Penance (1916)
- Proper Penance (1992) (V)
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Famous quotes containing the words penance in, penance, art and/or fiction:
“I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“In a few days Ill have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plodalways bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faultsrather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“That life is really so tragic would least of all explain the origin of an art formassuming that art is not merely imitation of the reality of nature but rather a metaphysical supplement of the reality of nature, placed beside it for its overcoming.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
—Flannery OConnor (19251964)