The best definition I've heard is that guilt is about what you've done, shame is about who you are. If something's out… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
Throughout this protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood, the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job. — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
“It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we only have one life” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Gawker thrived on embarrassment and shame, seeking to demolish not just celebrities or politicians but average random people whose sins it would… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Feelings like disappointment,í embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“She saw a roach pass by her foot, and she instantly lifted it up and brought it down on the roach. She… — Reyna Grande Copy Share Image
“It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“If shame still has any meaning in this hell we're expected to live...it is thanks to that person who had the courage… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people feel shame when they revisit their years of addiction. — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
“Changes in Relationship with others: It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
The right to defend oneself is something that should never require us to be on a list, it should never require us… — Marjorie Taylor Greene Copy Share Image
You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine — Billy Mays Copy Share Image
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn… — Elizabeth McGovern Copy Share Image
“It is not our conscience that torments us over our image; that is our ego tormenting us. Our conscience torments us when… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The photo shoots were not easy. I cried and refused to do anything that would shame my mother and father. — Liz Mitchell Copy Share Image
