875 Quotes About Shame

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence.

Sexual abuse is also a secret crime, one that usually has no witness. Shame and secrecy keep a child from talking to siblings about the abuse, even if all the children in a family are being sexually assaulted. In contrast, if a child is physically or emotionally abused, the abuse is likely to occur in front of the other children in the family, at least some of the time. The physical and emotional abuse becomes part of the family's explicit history. Sexual abuse does not.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

Looks like it’s game time,” Shame said. “Beautiful day for some ass kicking, don’t you think?