SHAME QUOTES II

quotations about shame


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He who hath shame seldom sins.

TALMUD
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attributed, Day's Collacon


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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

PLAUTUS

Bacchides


If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

BRENE BROWN

Daring Greatly


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 makes the world go around.

MORISSEY

"Shame Is The Name"


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

ANN PATCHETT

Truth and Beauty

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

JOHN BUNYAN

The Pilgrim's Progress

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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


All is confounded, all!
Reproach and everlasting shame
Sits mocking in our plumes.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry V


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


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

C. S. LEWIS

Till We Have Faces

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

PIERRE CORNEILLE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess what it must be to live the life of a human being.

OSAMU DAZAI

No Longer Human

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Shame ... ever sticks close to the ribs of honor.

THOMAS MIDDLETON

The Mayor of Queenborough; Or Hengist, King of Kent


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

ZOE FITZGERALD CARTER

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


Shame is like a lock, it shuts away what must be shut away, and is one of the most important mechanisms of social life.

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD

Autumn


Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

BULWER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

ANAIS NIN

attributed, Why Men Fall Out of Love

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