875 Quotes About Shame

But is there such a thing as trauma without shame? Isn’t shame an integral part of what causes an event or series of events to become a trauma?

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

How many implements of shame should I hold againstmyself?

Shame attacks can be triggered by the most unremarkable events. We might smell a scent that subconsciously reminds the body of a shameful or traumatic event.

Don't be a victim of your thoughts.

Ma souffrance est ma vengeance contre moi-même.

Junie says that the worst thing about shame is the way it chains you down. The way it holds your mind hostage and won’t let you go, gnawing from the inside out, feeding on you like a parasite.

At the top of the page I wrote my full name [...] At the sight of it, many thoughts rushed through me, but I could write down only this: "I wish I could love someone so much that I would die from it." And then as I looked at this sentence a great deal of shame came over me and I wept and wept so much that the tears fell on the page and caused all the words to become one great big blur.

Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called."On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed," came the response.