Shame Quote by David Wong Download Open image ““My shame circuits burned out from overuse years ago.”” — David Wong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shame Years ago
“The blame lies with our brains. While they are really good at building circuits, they are awful at unbuilding them.” — Daniel Coyle Copy Share Image
“Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame.” — Scott Stabile 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
“At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by a frenzy… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.” — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.” — Petrarch 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
“We have these shames we keep to ourselves because to show ourselves as we are, no more and no less, would be too much.… — Roxane Gay 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
“A realization washed over her in that cold, dark space: this was how virtually all living things born on earth have died—with teeth tearing… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Let’s say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ax to behead… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“John, let me make one thing clear,” Jim said, cutting me off in his most stern, evangelical voice. “Every man is blessed with his… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“John ducked casually across some DO NOT DUCK CASUALLY ACROSS THIS TAPE tape” — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Marconi said, "I see you have your instruments. Can any of you sing? The old spirituals work best." John said, "I can sing." I… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“It’s the microscopic parasite that causes malaria. Nearly half of all human deaths in recorded history have been caused by this invisible assassin. One… — David Wong Copy Share Image
At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“I stared at the price tags and thought, Why don’t you fucking kill yourself? I have that thought a lot, actually. Hey, did you… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Well, you’d better hope I am because the world was built by sociopaths, men willing to send a million innocent boys into battle to… — David Wong Copy Share Image
There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“Around us, the disembodied human limbs were piling up, forming a circle around the fountain, fusing themselves to each other like Satan’s LEGO set.” — David Wong 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