Fear Quote by Lawrence Kushner

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven…

— Margaret Oliphant

“Embarrassment is the Parmalat of emotions.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others express a…

— Walter Scott

“the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“What is embarrassment? In general, embarrassment is an emotional response to an innocent mistake. The major reason that some of us are embarrassment-prone is…

— Toni Bernhard

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

— Jenny Holzer

“Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination.”

— Steven Pinker

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

— Martha Nussbaum

“Thus political orientation about social issues reflects sensitivity to visceral disgust and strategies for coping with such disgust.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

— Siegfried Lenz