SHAME QUOTES IV

quotations about shame


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

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


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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

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


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 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


Where there is no shame, there is no honor.

MARTIN OPITZ

attributed, Day's Collacon


Shame is a great concealer of tears.

ALTAHIYA

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

PANTHEA

attributed, Day's Collacon


Love taught him shame, and shame, with love at strife,
Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

JOHN DRYDEN

Cymon and Iphigenia

Tags: John Dryden


Shame wields its power when you tamp it down and ignore its existence. Expose it to the light, and it becomes a vampire at high noon.

HOWARD ENGLANDER

"It's a shame we have so much trouble talking about shame", Chicago Now, August 29, 2017


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

CRAIG THOMPSON

Blankets


Honor and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Man

Tags: Alexander Pope


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


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"

Tags: Edwin Leibfreed


Now there's a lifestyle
With painted lips
Now there's a lifestyle
Everybody wants it
But it don't exist
And I said shame...

EURYTHMICS

"Shame"


While shame is something a person imposes upon themselves, shaming is a thing that society imposes on people and on women in far greater numbers than men.

GABRIELLE ZEVIN

interview, Seattle Pi, August 26, 2017


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


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

Tags: Anne Bradstreet


Shame is a part of original sin.

JOHN HUMPHREY NOYES

attributed, Day's Collacon


Where there is shame there is virtue.

JOHANN RIST

attributed, Day's Collacon


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