SHAME QUOTES III

quotations about shame

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


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

CRAIG THOMPSON

Blankets


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

JOHN BUNYAN

The Pilgrim's Progress

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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


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

THOMAS MIDDLETON

The Mayor of Queenborough; Or Hengist, King of Kent


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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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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There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

KEN KESEY

Sometimes a Great Notion

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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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Time was when most people didn't want to admit feelings shame, but even that terribly crippling feeling is more out in the open now than it used to be. Admitting shame is admitting a flaw or a defect in oneself, as if there is something wrong with the person's being. Talking about feeling shame or guilt can make a person feel exposed and vulnerable; it can also lead to grace.

JEANIE MILEY

"Growing Edges: Talking about shame and guilt can lead to grace", Standard-Times, August 19, 2017


Shame makes the world go around.

MORISSEY

"Shame Is The Name"


Where there is shame there is virtue.

JOHANN RIST

attributed, Day's Collacon


He who hath shame seldom sins.

TALMUD

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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

PIERRE CORNEILLE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

PLAUTUS

Bacchides


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

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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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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