Shame Quote by Gregory Maguire

“The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”

— Milan Kundera

“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

“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone”

— Milan Kundera

“Ransom preferred to work as a volunteer rather than in admitted slavery: and he liked his cooking a good deal more than that of…

— C.S. Lewis

“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

“Were all times captives, hostages of Eternity”

— Boris Pasternak

“For the fact is that there is no humiliation so great that one should not accept it with unconcern, knowing that at the end…

— Marcel Proust

“The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted,…

— Donna Tartt

“The idea was that if we did such things, we would see that the worst that could happen was usually not so bad, and…

— Dr Ameisen Olivier

“When those in power use shame to bully the weak into compliance, they are stealing from us. They tell us that they will expose…

— Seth Godin

“existence is humiliation, anyway.”

— Steve Toltz

“Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.”

— Chuck Palahniuk