SHAME QUOTES III

quotations about shame

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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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

SALMAN RUSHDIE

Shame


Only man can blush.
No other creature knows of shame.
Why have we wandered so far away
From simple honesty?

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"

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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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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 is the lie someone told you about yourself.

ANAIS NIN

attributed, Why Men Fall Out of Love

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

THOMAS MANN

The Magic Mountain

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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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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

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Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

BRENE BROWN

I Thought It Was Just Me


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

PIERRE CORNEILLE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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

JOHN BUNYAN

The Pilgrim's Progress

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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


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


Where there is no shame, there is no honor.

MARTIN OPITZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

CRAIG THOMPSON

Blankets


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


Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

SENECA

attributed, Day's Collacon


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