SHAME QUOTES III

quotations about shame


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Shame is an uncomfortable companion, it makes you want to climb out of your skin.

ZOE FITZGERALD CARTER
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"Charlottesville rage rooted in white shame", San Francisco Chronicle, August 26, 2017


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Shame is an attachment to negative self-perception that has been fostered by the perceptions and opinions of others. Shame is a wasted sensibility.

DEVON ST. CLAIRE

"Shame and Negative Self Perception", Empire State News, August 31, 2017


Shame makes the world go around.

MORISSEY

"Shame Is The Name"


Most of my life was spent marinating in shame. It felt like part of my genetic makeup. Shame held my head underwater and told me to resign to my fate, to stop fighting. Shame left me feeling my very personhood was flawed.

TARA HEDMAN

When Shame is Protective


Shame is the most powerful master emotion. It's the fear that we aren't good enough.

DEBRA CAMPBELL

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


He who hath shame seldom sins.

TALMUD

attributed, Day's Collacon


Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

C. S. LEWIS

Till We Have Faces

Tags: C. S. Lewis


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


I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that.

PAULA HAWKINS

The Girl on the Train


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

PANTHEA

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


Shame, depart, thou art an enemy to my salvation!

JOHN BUNYAN

The Pilgrim's Progress

Tags: John Bunyan


It is the guilt, not the scaffold, which constitutes the shame.

PIERRE CORNEILLE

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Pierre Corneille


I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

PLAUTUS

Bacchides


Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

STEFAN ZWEIG

The Post Office Girl

Tags: Stefan Zweig


Though honor might possess certain advantages, yet shame had others, and not inferior.

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

Tags: Thomas Mann


The only shame is to have none.

BLAISE PASCAL

Pensées

Tags: Blaise Pascal


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

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Shame

Tags: Salman Rushdie


One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

LOUIS KRONENBERGER

Company Manners

Tags: Louis Kronenberger


Shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us.

ANN PATCHETT

Truth and Beauty

Tags: Ann Patchett