Best Shamed Quotes

44 Shamed quotes by 41 unique authors

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime. — Lorrie Moore
(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family… — Jonathan Safran Foer
He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what… — Dorothy Allison
So you go away from where you were afraid. Some stay; some go; it's a big difference, leaving the humiliations of childhood, the morbid fear.… — Andrea Dworkin
To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is… — John Bradshaw
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding, self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that work on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back… — Joan Didion
I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no… — Lorrie Moore
Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence. — Philippa Gregory
The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not… — Harry Crews
Valancy herself had never quite relinquished a certain pitiful, shamed, little hope that Romance would come her way yet—never, until this wet, horrible morning, when… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The inner boy in a messed-up family may keep on being shamed, invaded, disappointed, and paralyzed for years and years. "I am a victim," he… — Robert Bly
That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd… — Nicholas Sparks
Be as pissed off as you want to be. Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike or some such nonsense. We shouldn’t be shamed… — Jessica Valenti
We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory. — Ralph Peters
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Alright. I'm shamed. You can stop pointing. — Green Monk
'Remember that you have no rights to doubr the abilities of someone on the basis of incomplete information, if you do you will feel ashamed… — Mak_786
Admiring the woman you love isn't a secret; The secret only admires shamed hearts and supplies courage to love the one who's a secret. — Kenneth Melvin Jr
After my hand has finished jacking me off, it hides in my pocket like a shamed whore. — Nikhil Saluja

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