Circumstances Quote by Ann Patchett

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

— Beth Ditto

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we…

— Milan Kundera

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we…

— Craig Groeschel

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of…

— Sharon Salzberg

“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

When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame…

— Robert Redford

Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.

— Leslie Jamison

I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices…

— Anonymous

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am…

— Melody Beattie

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

— Colin Powell

“I found out that “Shame is a reaction to other people’s criticism, an acute personal chagrin at our failure to live up to our…

— Paul G. Hiebert