Shame Quotes - Page 19

• The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, Missing, Criticism

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• He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that didn't mean there'd be any way to keep from knowing it was there.

  Richard Yates

  Mean, Knowing, Nurse

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• If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

  Mother Teresa

  Experience, Asking, Knows

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• Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Forever, Body, Forget

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.247, Cambridge University Press

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• If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

  Epictetus

  Mind, Body, Advertising

  Epictetus (2015). “The Enchiridion”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Tools, Produce

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• There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

  Sean Penn

  Want

  "Sean Penn: What I've Learned". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

  Vivien Leigh

  Yankees, Laughing, Heaven

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• Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's terrorizes us, it has power over us. When we are prepared to discuss it aloud, we might have power over it. It's thought of as a mental illness and it is a physical illness, affecting the brain. There should be no shame in having it, yet people still don't talk about it

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Names, People

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• Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

  Jack Kornfield

  Regret, War, Ambition

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• No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love You, Loss, Forever

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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• Grace gives us the power to live, and mercy keeps us free from guilt, condemnation, and shame.

  John Bevere

  Giving, Grace, Guilt

  Twitter post from Jan 01, 2015

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• I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

  Louis Armstrong

  Inspirational, Relationship, Simple

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• Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in
  comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Blessed, Thinking

  Martin Luther, Henry Bell (Captain.), Joseph KERBY, Anton Lauterbach (1818). “The Familiar Discourses of Dr. Martin Luther ... Translated ... by Captain Henry Bell ... A New Edition, Revised ... by J. Kerby, Etc”, p.109

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• Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.

  Matthew Henry

  Song, Pain, Healing

  Matthew Henry (1828). “Communicant's Companion”, p.130

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• Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

  Kevin Rose

  Pride, Trying, Failing

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• As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. #‎ PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence.

  Rosario Dawson

  Talking, Issues, Support

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• If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

  Gail Sheehy

  Men, Males, Denial

  "Male Menopause: New Book Argues Midlife Transition Is Just As Hard On Men" By Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Calling, Soap

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.69, Whitaker House

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• If I had a horse buck with me now, I’m a little disappointed. It’s not the end of the world, but I’m a little disappointed if I couldn’t keep the horse out of trouble, whereas it used to be a source of pride, and now it’s sort of source of shame if I let the horse get lost.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Pride, Littles

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• I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.

  David Tennant

  Thinking, Enthusiasm, Geek

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• If you are burdened with depressing feelings of guilt or disappointment, of failure or shame, there is a cure.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Depressing, Disappointment, Feelings

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• It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, May, Opponents

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.75, Beacon Press

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• We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Female, Legs

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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• If you, who are organised by Divine Providence for spiritual communion, refuse, and bury your talent in the earth, even though you should want natural bread, sorrow and desperation pursue you through life, and after death shame and confusion of face to eternity.

  William Blake

  Spiritual, Confusion, Sorrow

  William Blake (1926). “Prefatory note There is no natural religion. All religions are one. The marriage of heaven and hell Visions of the daughters of Albion. A song of liberty. America. Europe. The book of Urizen. The book of Los. Ahania. The song of Los. The four Zoas. Milton. Jerusalem. On Homer's poetry; On Virgil. Laocoön. The ghost of Abel”

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