Language Quote by Elif Shafak

“Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift.”

— William Trevor

“...it was ludicrous to think that we could just talk our way out of shame, that shame was necessary, that it prevented us from…

— Miriam Toews

“If she had learned anything in the past weeks it was that there was enough to be ashamed of in the course of a…

— Shannon McKenna

“Her only shame was that she felt none.”

— Nicholas Evans

“Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“I think shame is the most profound of all emotions; I think the world is ruled by shame.”

— J.R. Salamanca

“But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.”

— Andreas Eschbach

“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.”

— Petrarch

“... she was sure that all those things she'd been taught abut feeling shame were wrong. It was not a curse to fully inhabit…

— Libba Bray

“Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.”

— Carroll Bryant

“That was a moment where something clarified about shame for me: it’s not just something negative but some kind of arrow, it’s pointing at…

— Leslie Jamison

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay…

— Brené Brown