875 Quotes About Shame

Fandom itself buys into the stereotype of the overly emotional, crazy fangirl on a regular basis. In fact, fans have internalized such a strong sense of shame that they've projected it onto the objects of their affection, expressing fear that the celebrities are either terrified or disgusted by their own female fans.

God is kind. He isn't standing in the center of your issues with his arms crossed and a look of disdain on his face. He does not shame us, and so if you ever feel the shame seeing into the corners of your heart, you need to know that isn't Him.

Just the admission of liking any kind of fanfiction can be a source of shaming.

Judy shook her head when she saw me the next day, dressed in the same clothes I had worn to work the day before. “We used to call that the walk of shame,” she said.

Jung observed that everyone has a pathological secret, something so scary, so shameful perhaps, so humiliating, that one will protect it nearly any cost.

Without other humans there is no such thing as shame.

When he lifted the cover of one of the trash cans, before emptying the contents of his own pail into it, he was always astonished by its neatness and order. His own trash was the most indecent collection in the entire building. Repugnant and despicable. There was no resemblance between it and the honest, day-to-day trash of the other tenants. That had a solid, respectable appearance, and his did not.

Today, I would say at last, this disciplinary Tourette’s syndrome, where suddenly and even in the face of tremendous productivity architecture still blurts out a sense of shame, is starting to be understood as self-imposed and more likely to prolong paralysis than move the discipline further.

When it comes to fighting shame, sticking together is the most powerful force imaginable.