875 Quotes About Shame
- Author Beatriz Bracher
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It takes all the strength of my spirit to transform my executioners into animals, not to leave the slightest opening, to discuss nothing, not even Pelé . Which is impossible, I never met anyone who couldn’t. And that is how along with fear, shame takes its hold.
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- Author Stephen King
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.
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- Author L. Frank Baum
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It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool
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- Author Cinda Williams Chima
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Aftera brief silence, Kenzie said, "Don't you believe in second chances?"The room seemed a little colder, a little darker, as if a shadow had passed over the sun. "Sonny Lee always said, 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
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- Author Marguerite Yourcenar
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More sensitive to Rome's prejudices than I was aware, I recalled that although they grant sensuality a rôle they see only shameful folly in love;
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- Author Nabil N. Jamal
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Fool me once; fool me twice; but shame on me if you fool me thrice.
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- Author Bryant McGill
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The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance.
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- Author Renee Fredrickson
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Memory repression thrives in shame, secrecy, and shock. The shame and degradation experienced during sexual assault is profound, especially for children who have no concept of what is happening to them or why. Sexual abuse is so bizarre and horrible that the frightened child feels compelled to bury the event deep inside his or her mind.
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- Author John M Sheehan
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If the shame has not broken you; you have yet met the Holy one who became your last sin paying the price with His own blood
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