SHAME QUOTES III

quotations about shame


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The way out of shame is to own it, and go on being your best, showing up rather than hiding because of it. Don't let shame own you and keep you small.

DEBRA CAMPBELL
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"Peeling the Onion of Abuse and Shame", Huffington Post, September 14, 2017


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The only shame is to have none.

BLAISE PASCAL

Pensées

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The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.

JOHN BRADSHAW

Healing the Shame that Binds You


Shame need not crouch
In such an earth as ours
Stand--stand erect;
The universe is yours.

EMILY DICKINSON

"Not with a Club, the Heart is broken"

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Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

CRAIG THOMPSON

Blankets


It is better to be buried than to live in shame.

PANTHEA

attributed, Day's Collacon


I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

JONATHAN SWIFT

"Thoughts on Various Subjects", The Works of Jonathan Swift

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Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

J. R. WARD

Lover Enshrined


Time was when most people didn't want to admit feelings shame, but even that terribly crippling feeling is more out in the open now than it used to be. Admitting shame is admitting a flaw or a defect in oneself, as if there is something wrong with the person's being. Talking about feeling shame or guilt can make a person feel exposed and vulnerable; it can also lead to grace.

JEANIE MILEY

"Growing Edges: Talking about shame and guilt can lead to grace", Standard-Times, August 19, 2017


The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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Shame makes the world go around.

MORISSEY

"Shame Is The Name"


Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Shame

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Once they know they've got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all world to see. And you become less than it. You become something disgusting.

KIRSTY EAGER

Raw Blue


Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore, shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.

WILLIAM SHERLOCK

A Practical Discourse Concerning a Future Judgment


It is safest to be moderately base--to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

SYDNEY SMITH

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

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I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

JODI PICOULT

Handle with Care


He who hath shame seldom sins.

TALMUD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Do but increase a man's pride, and his fear of shame will ever be proportioned to it; for the greater value a man sets upon himself, the more pains he will take, and the greater hardships he will undergo to avoid shame.

BERNARD DE MANDEVILLE

The Fable of the Bees


To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.

JOHN BRADSHAW

Healing the Shame that Binds You


Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

ANNE BRADSTREET

Meditations Divine and Moral

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