Shame Quote by John Steinbeck Download Open image ““Nearly everyone has his box of secret shame, shared with no one.”” — John Steinbeck ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Shame
“Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame.” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“I had a chance to lay it all out on the table, and I didn't. But that's the problem with shame. Shame doesn't like… — Meghan Quinn Copy Share Image
“The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There were some secrets that should never be spoken, some shames a man should take to his grave.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“To me there is no shame in telling the truth, but ironically, I think shame is usually the reason people don't.” — Tina Alexis Allen Copy Share Image
“We all have our secrets; some people like to hide it and some just don’t like to reveal.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a secret, but when it is bound by shame we're forced to live within the darkest circles of our crumbling masks; unable… — A.M. Hudson Copy Share Image
“When shame is your own, it’s hard enough to bear. When other people are witness to it, it becomes intolerable.” — Rachel Abbott Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be… — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia. — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the guy to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“There's something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.” — Riley Sager Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
“He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image