SHAME QUOTES III

quotations about shame

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

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Man

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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 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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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


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


Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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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


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 may restrain what law does not prohibit.

SENECA

attributed, Day's Collacon


Where there is shame there is virtue.

JOHANN RIST

attributed, Day's Collacon


Worthlessness, depravity, torment and fear. The definition is up to you. No matter where you stand, shame breeds nothing but negativity, which can cause you problems throughout your journey.

CORINE GATTI

"7 Ways to Beat Shame", Belief Net, April 14, 2017


Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.

ANAIS NIN

attributed, Why Men Fall Out of Love

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Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Henry V


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


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

PIERRE CORNEILLE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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

PANTHEA

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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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