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Quotes About Shame

And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her parents asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.
~ Lev Grossman
That was the truth. And if she liked and trusted the person who asked, she would add that yes, it was kind of a lot to deal with: her outward affect was bright and capable, and that was no illusion, but equally real was the yawning pit of exhaustion inside her. She just felt so tired sometimes. And because of everything her family asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired. She could not, would not let the pit swallow her up, as much as she sometimes wanted it to.
~ Lev Grossman
And because of everything her family asked of her, she was ashamed of being tired.
~ Lev Grossman
Eigenlijk is het niet zo erg, maar wel dermate stompzinnig, dat je je er voor geneert," dacht Lewin en troostte zich met de overweging dat het nu eenmaal zo hoorde - iedereen deed het.
~ Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoj
Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?
~ lewis c s viii
There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this ideal world is often proportional to the poverty of the real, as personal grandiosity is proportional to shame.
~ Lewis Hyde
'Me Too' is about letting - using the power of empathy to stomp out shame.
~ Tarana Burke
You need to know that you cannot control your feelings, and you cannot control your feelings about your feelings, but, as best as you can, intellectually understand that your feelings are valid and they're okay and don't try to stifle them or feel shame about them.
~ Raphael Bob-Waksberg
We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
~ Patrick Ness
Concealing what is shameful to you will never lead to anything of value.
~ Karl Ove Knausgard
It's important to recognize how special New Orleans is. You play the snare drum or the clarinet in any other city, and you'd be considered a nerd, but here, there's no shame in it, and it's absolutely valued.
~ Irvin Mayfield
A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
~ Jasper Fforde
Shame is the gateway emotion to increased self-criticism, which leads to realisation, an apology, outrage and eventually meaningful action. We're not holding our breaths that any appreciable members can be arsed to make the journey along that difficult chain of emotional honesty – many good people get past realisation, only to then get horribly stuck at apology – but we live in hope.
~ Jasper Fforde
I'm glad to see you're not mutilated in any way," he said. "A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed—and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
~ Jasper Fforde
They are lazy, worthless men who contribute nothing, unless they're shamed into it, and they have little shame.
~ Jean M. Auel
Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture
~ Jean Racine
If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.
~ Jeanette Winterson
If there is such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.
~ Jeanette Winterson
He who blushes is already guilty.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emerging society gave way to the most horrible state of war; since the human race, vilified and desolated, was no longer able to retrace its steps or give up the unfortunate acquisitions it had made, and since it labored only toward its shame by abusing the faculties that honor it, it brought itself to the brink of its ruin. Horrified by the newness of the ill, both the poor man and the rich man hope to flee from wealth, hating what they once had prayed for.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nie to najci??ej wyzna?, co w nas jest zbrodnicze, ale co wstydliwe i ?mieszne
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I haven't any troubles, I have some money like a gentleman of leisure, no boss, no wife, no children; I exist, that's all. And that particular trouble is so vague, so metaphysical, that I am ashamed of it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre