Shame Quote by Aleksis Kivi Download Open image ““It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.”” — Aleksis Kivi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shame
“But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.” — Andreas Eschbach Copy Share Image
“When shame is your own, it’s hard enough to bear. When other people are witness to it, it becomes intolerable.” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
“I had a chance to lay it all out on the table, and I didn't. But that's the problem with shame. Shame doesn't like… — Meghan Quinn Copy Share Image
“It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Once they know they've got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all world to… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
“But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I have learned that for me, shame is like kryptonite. It was utterly destructive, a boot on my neck for most of my life.… — Laura Parrott Perry Copy Share Image
“Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift.” — William Trevor Copy Share Image
“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“You have no reason to show shame. Sometimes our spirit weeps. When it does you must work at comforting it, and then healing it.” — P.C. Cast Copy Share Image
“Let us keep our shame and be made clean! Shame is not defilement, though a mean pride persuades men so. On the contrary, the… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The love goes where it wants; you hear it rustling but you do not know where it's going and where it goes. — Aleksis Kivi Copy Share Image
To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so… — Aleksis Kivi Copy Share Image
“Muistuttipa heidän juoksunsa kuuta korkeuden sininiitulla. Ei väisty hän syrjään hattaran edestä, joka tahtoo sulkea hänen tiensä, vaan huoletonna hän retkeilee sen läpitse, ja… — Aleksis Kivi Copy Share Image
It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the guy to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“There's something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.” — Riley Sager Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
“He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image