875 Quotes About Shame

This woman’s size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.

Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy,in silence and isolation.

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

Too many men I know experience shame because society places pressure on them to withhold emotion: emotion and sensitivity is weak. I have found the opposite is true: emotion and sensitivity is what makes us strong.

The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These energy patterns are repressed but not destroyed. They are alive in our unconscious.

Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.

Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it

To be ashamed of being poor, you need, not only poverty, but also stupidity.

[T]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace.