Shame Quote by Elizabeth von Arnim

Priests, she insisted, could not sin. It was a thing impossible. Everything that they did, and wished, was of course right. She hoped I…

— Maria Monk

“She denied and feared God in the same breath. She allowed our actions to shame her, and yet was void of shame. I truly…

— Delores Phillips

“Like the teachers at the Duke's estate, the priest thought he knew the girl and what she was capable of. He was wrong. He…

— Leigh Bardugo

“The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins…

— Morley Callaghan

“I went to the priest for confession, but he didn’t do it.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A sin confessed, a guilt cleared by grace.”

— Lailah Gifty, Akita

“She said little in answer to the strenuous Pressures with which at last he ventur’d to enfold her, but not thinking it Decent, for…

— Eliza Haywood

“His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she…

— Virginia Woolf

“... 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

“She had the look of someone who'd declared herself, and seeing it, my indignation collapsed and her mutinous bath turned into something else entirely.…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“The god she could outrun, but the guilt was already catching up to her.”

— J-F Dubeau

“I understood why Catholics confess,even though they must know priests share the same sins, or worse.It does not matter who was listening; what mattered…

— Paulo Coelho