Shame Quote by José Saramago

“If shame still has any meaning in this hell we're expected to live...it is thanks to that person who had the courage to go…

— José Saramago

“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

“But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.”

— Andreas Eschbach

“We have these shames we keep to ourselves because to show ourselves as we are, no more and no less, would be too much.…

— Roxane Gay

“When shame is your own, it’s hard enough to bear. When other people are witness to it, it becomes intolerable.”

— Rachel Abbott

“There is no other shame like senseless sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.”

— Petrarch

“Once they know they've got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all world to…

— Kirsty Eagar

“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

“I think shame is the most profound of all emotions; I think the world is ruled by shame.”

— J.R. Salamanca

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

— Milan Kundera

“It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an…

— Lionel Shriver