Quote by Jim C. Cunningham

“I was ashamed. I wouldn’t be able to explain this properly to anyone. It had something to do with being seen. Everything was visible…

— Leslie Jamison

“When you were born you didn’t know that you had a body, let alone that you should be ashamed of it.”

— Jen Sincero

“They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like…

— Maggie LaCroix

“They weren't penitent over what they'd attempted; their sorrow reached to the limits of their bodies and no further, all their anguish was in…

— Ron Hansen

“He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him of life,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I can quite understand that many people may be depressed by the spectacle of naked humanity. Personally I cannot see that an ugly body…

— Evelyn Waugh

“One can never be as naked, as exposed, in the flesh as one becomes in the mind”

— Martin Walser

“And when our bodies remind us that we are not, when they wrinkle and sag and weaken, we are ashamed of them. We do…

— Hannah Anderson

“Try This: Imagine the world as a place where anyone can safely and even joyfully express themselves the way they’ve always wanted to. Nothing…

— Kate Bornstein

“For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity when looking…

— Ayn Rand

“Something hurtful to my pride, disagreeable, rose at the sight of these lower forms of life. Their existence struck a servile reflection upon our…

— T.E. Lawrence

“Stripped of our clothes we are all naked, exposed to different human experiences. Stripped of our flesh, to the bone, we are the same.”

— Stephen McDonough