SHAME QUOTES III

quotations about shame

He who hath shame seldom sins.

TALMUD

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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 is a great concealer of tears.

ALTAHIYA

attributed, Day's Collacon


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

CRAIG THOMPSON

Blankets


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

BULWER

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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


Suddenly, my need to disappear became stronger than my need to be safe. That's what shame does.

TARA HEDMAN

When Shame is Protective


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


Where there is shame there is virtue.

JOHANN RIST

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


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 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


You made me cry
When you said goodbye
Isn't that a shame
My tears fell like rain
Isn't that a shame
You're the one to blame

JOHN LENNON

"Ain't That a Shame"

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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


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

PIERRE CORNEILLE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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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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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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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