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Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.
Shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
If you are proud for bad reasons, shame waits around the corner
...if it had to be shame, then let it be shame; if it had to be disgrace, then let it be disgrace; if it had to be degradation, then let it be degradation--the worse the better!
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
show, don't tell
What one is ashamed to do one should be ashamed to say.
I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
That man penetrated me with his shame. Shame, I realize now, is an infectious disease. Shame can be sexually transmitted. (107)
The roots of shame run deep.
Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
Better to live shamed than die proud.
Only love can neutralize shame.
It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.
Shame is a a choice Katie. It's not how I want you to feel or how God wants you to feel."~Asher Powell
There's no room for shame here. Shame will be fucked out of you. Do you understand that?
The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame
As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!
Stop making shame a virtue.
Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Shame is the feeling you get when you believe that you're not worthy of anyone caring about you or loving you. That you're such a bad person that you can't even blame other people for not caring about you.
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it's dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.
Shame forces us to put so much value on what other people think that we lose ourselves in the process of trying to meet everyone else's expectations. Shame:
I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)
Shame eats away at the core of who we are.
Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.
...shame can do things to people's minds. It warps them from the truth, allowing them only to see what they want to see.
Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced.
How they made
out of shamelessness something
beautiful, for as long as they could.
Shamelessness is not the same as honesty.
The less you talk about your shame, the more of it you have.
Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.
But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated. Because if it weren't for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all.
I told on them.
I was jealous.
God forgive me, for I have sinned.
there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?
Love defeats shame, every time.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.
I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.
All the little duckies, with their heads in the water
Heads in the water.
It was my punishment. Honor lost. Everything lost.
Shame is a hunter.
My shame was all around me now.
There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear.
Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.
My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
Shame cannot exist in conditions of light, sunshine, and humor. So the very moment that you share your most shameful moments - and can learn to laugh about them - then the spell is lifted. And you, too, are free.
There is no shame in black beauty,
'Shameless' is going to shake up television. Any drama is good drama. Bring it.
The culture of shame is driven by fear, blame and disconnection, and it is often a powerful incubator for issues like perfectionism, stereotyping, gossiping and addiction.
There is no shame in loving.
Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.
I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.
Come let's go inside. I'm sure you and your men are hungry."
"Yes," Allan said, grinning.
"Shameless," I heard David grunt.
"There is no glory in shame," Allan said back.
But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.
Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.
I don't think there is shame in it. You were so wild in your pleasure that night. I couldn't find it in myself to look away. It delighted me to watch you so taken over by your need." Benjamin
Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.
The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
Past all shame, so past all truth.
To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.
It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.
Shame is a hunter. I
Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart.
when love is eclipsed by power, the somber hues of shame darken life
My confessions are shameless. I confess, but do not repent. The fact is, my confessions are prompted, not by ethical motives, butintellectual. The confessions are to me the interesting records of a self-investigator.
Shame must be accepted to be effective.
For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.
Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.
There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.
Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.
Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.
The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women's shame.
Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging.
The pain was greater than the shame
shame is the voice of perfectionism. Whether we're talking about appearance, work, motherhood, health or family, it's not the quest for perfection that is so painful; it's failing to meet the unattainable expectations that lead to the painful wash of shame.
Shame is a soul eating emotion.
Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s).
Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame.
He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.
Not all shame comes from wrong doing and not all hiding comes from moral failure.
While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.
Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.
Shame is a destroyer of self-worth.
Shame does something to a man. It makes him forget those he loves. It makes a good man do bad things.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Nothing silences us more effectively than shame.
Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.
A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach ...
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.
If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry,
Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.
Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.
Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in the process, etch within you the arcs of exceptional narrative.