Shame Quote by J.M. Coetzee

“She thought about how it was to have been a woman in the prime of life, with children and a man, and then to…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Now and then she looked harassed by her own potential, like certain young people, and you might notice then the way a stillness spread…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“To be fair, her expected hatred of all things male has not materialised because it is clear that she simply dislikes everyone. I suspect…

— Dougie Brimson

“The fact was that the woman lived the life she chose, she was happy in that life and it was no one's business after…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“She thought of the boy thrown into the cauldron of war, the girl beset by various bigotries, her life in danger, and saw how…

— Nadeem Aslam

“He looked at his face carefully in the glass, put a big dab of lather on each cheek-bone. "It's an honest face. It's a…

— Ernest Hemingway

“In her writings, she despises her fellow man and woman for representing what she had lost.”

— Lilian Pizzichini

“Learning that he was a professional swindler should have made her shame a hundred times worse. Instead, it took the sting out of it.…

— Rose Lerner

“There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.”

— Jane Fallon

“Her shame, she was certain, marked her in ways apparent to anyone who looked closely. It had grown to her like a second skin”

— Sondra Allan Carr

“She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will…

— Bram Stoker

“And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you…

— Osyp Nazaruk