“Shame is the bane of my existence both as a trauma therapist and as a survivor, as it is one of the… — Amanda Ann Gregory Copy Share Image
A lot of people tell me now I'm their inspiration. They say, 'I don't play baseball,' and then they mention whatever -… — Jose Altuve Copy Share Image
I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know… — Nas Copy Share Image
I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense… — Ira Sachs Copy Share Image
“Volatile expressions of anger and hostility combined with a tendency to blame others often result from feeling shame… If you are shame-prone,… — Mary C. Lamia Copy Share Image
There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Some folks never try to grow beyond lives that have not realized that potential. And as long as they don't regret that,… — Ken Evoy Copy Share Image
Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I wanted no secrets, no screens, nothing between us. Little did I know that if I relished the gust of candor that… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with… — Maura Tierney Copy Share Image
“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR;… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
“His words held a mixture of embarrassment and anger, the latter caused by the former. He knew he couldn’t remember anything, and… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“S: But Chris, I think his embarrassment isn't in relation to you or me but to himself. What can he do? C:… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame… — Imre Kertész Copy Share Image
Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You… — Theo James Copy Share Image
If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there. You try to take… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
We just did a bunch of songs, and there was a lot of enthusiasm for the songs that we made. We didn't… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There were more people against going into Iraq than there were going into the Falklands... but the shame I carry as a… — Shane Meadows Copy Share Image
The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her,… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“I had a few pricks of conscience- seeing Henry's pajama bottoms hanging forlornly from a peg in our bedroom, his comb on… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is… — Oliviero Toscani Copy Share Image
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Complex PTSD consists of of six symptom clusters, which also have been described in terms of dissociation of personality. Of course, people… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
![“I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long…” quote by Nas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aff/nas-650_bullshit_i-think-you-gotta-always-do-things-that_1957227.jpg)
![“For better or worse we live in a very exposing [time] where, if you choose to, everyone can see everyone's business. You see what they're having for breakfast, where they are, what they're doing. Whereas I think that classic idea of mystery is very seductive. Not knowing every single thing about a…” quote by Theo James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/375/theo-james-25958_breakfast_for-better-or-worse-we-live-in-a-very-ex_1432151.png)
