Quotes About Shame

Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. "Good book?" he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, "A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad," out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.

British climbers were driven as much by the fear of shame as they were by the lure of fame and glory. 4

He blamed the male victims, for they represented the men who had sodomised him and stolen his manhood; and he blamed the females, for they represented the women who belittled him when he could not get an erection.

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.

A blot in thy scutcheon to all futurity.

Our spiritual health and maturity depend upon knowing that God enjoys us, for it addresses the fear of rejection within our hearts. The fear of rejection and the trauma of shame are the most powerful emotions in the human spirit.

Fear, shame, and worthlessness have only the power we give them. This book is about hope, love, and grace and how they work toward the same ends.

Grace gets censored when we write these devilish decrees for our lives. Secret commandments get scrawled on personal tablets of shame, and we live life as if our stories belong on a discount rack rather than as valued, cherished children of God. We let a moment of pain cut us off from a lifetime of grace.

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

Desire is powerful. As the Buddhist teacher Mark Epstein writes, "Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully." 2

You feel guilty when you do something wrong, but you feel shame when you feel like you are something wrong.

In life, there was so much insult and injury, and she had no choice but to collect what was hers. But now she wished to take Solomon's shame, too, and add it to her pile, though she was already overwhelmed.

was still hard for a Korean to become a Japanese citizen, and there were many who considered such a thing shameful—for a Korean to try to become a citizen of its former oppressor.

To her, being Korean was just another horrible encumbrance, much like being poor or having a shameful family you could not cast off.

I will never be able to wash this dirt from my name. You can't be very bright," he said. "How can you make something clean from something dirty? And now, you have made me dirty," Noa said quietly,

Yumi felt that her three elder half sisters were as sexually indiscriminate and common as barn animals.

being Korean was just another horrible encumbrance, much like being poor or having a shameful family you could not cast off

Times might have changed, to be sure, but butchery, which required touching dead animals, was still a shameful occupation—the chief reason given as to why the matchmaker had such difficulty arranging an omiai for him—and Tanaka couldn't help but feel a kind of kinship with foreigners

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

The source of life (female) is redefined and now hated as the enemy of male life. What was once woman's power is now to be woman's curse, woman's shame. Woman's estrangement from God. In the Bible we can see the original Orwellian Newspeak occurring, in which false male imitations of menstruation and childbirth (the circumcised foreskin, the wounds of Christ) are made sacred and holy, while the real thing done

I wear a taint of rationing, that's all. I have the thready, ashamed look of a reduced person who assumes there is a worse reduction to come.

The personal aspects of which one is ashamed are often felt to be radically evil. While some things truly are evil and destructive, frequently shadow material is not evil. It is only felt to be so because of the shame attached to it due to its nonconformity with the persona.