--- title: "8 Shame Disgrace Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 8 Shame Disgrace quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Shame Disgrace sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51e/jane-swisshelm-28261_boat_if-i-wrote-at-all-i-must-throw-myself-he_279039.jpg" --- > [If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-swisshelm/if-i-wrote-at-all-i-must-throw-myself-headlong-into-the-great/) [Jane Swisshelm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-swisshelm/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51e/jane-swisshelm-28261_boat_if-i-wrote-at-all-i-must-throw-myself-he_279039.jpg) > [In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophocles/in-darkness-one-may-be-ashamed-of-what-one-does-without-the-shame-of/) [Sophocles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophocles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab9/sophocles-370_ashamed_in-darkness-one-may-be-ashamed-of-what-o_513190.png) > [“The principle suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace. It is a toxic shame -- a global sense of failure of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-boyle/the-principle-suffering-of-the-poor-is-shame-and-disgrace-it-is-a/) [Gregory Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-boyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d7/gregory-boyle-13018_failure_the-principle-suffering-of-the-poor-is-s_577704.jpg) > [starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pearl-s-buck/starvation-is-a-shame-and-disgrace-to-the-world-and-totally/) [Pearl S. Buck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pearl-s-buck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d6/pearl-s-buck-1024_disgrace_starvation-is-a-shame-and-disgrace-to-th_1679740.png) > [It's a shame and a disgrace that so few people take part in the political process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis/it-s-a-shame-and-a-disgrace-that-so-few-people-take-part-in-the/) [John Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09a/john-lewis-1310_people_it-s-a-shame-and-a-disgrace-that-so-few_1945615.jpg) > [“Out of the wreck of our disfigured, misshapen selves, so darkened by shame and disgrace, indeed the Lord comes to us disguised…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-boyle/out-of-the-wreck-of-our-disfigured-misshapen-selves-so-darkened-by/) [Gregory Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-boyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ef/gregory-boyle-13018_shame_out-of-the-wreck-of-our-disfigured-missh_2179479.jpg) > [Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-grisham/shame-was-an-emotion-he-had-abandoned-years-earlier-addicts-know-no/) [John Grisham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-grisham/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75e/john-grisham-974_abandoned_shame-was-an-emotion-he-had-abandoned-ye_2182175.jpg) > [ “\[T\]he principal suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregory-boyle/t-he-principal-suffering-of-the-poor-is-shame-and-disgrace/) [Gregory Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregory-boyle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/174/gregory-boyle-13018_disgrace_t-he-principal-suffering-of-the-poor-is_3040644.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/shame-disgrace/#itemlist", "name": "Shame Disgrace Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fishing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. 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