Shame Quote by Max Lucado

“Though he was inquiring into himself as closely as he could, he never even told himself that he had been dishonest. Fraud and dishonesty…

— Anthony Trollope

“For a moment, I felt sorry for him. The pain and disappointment of his life hung about him like a cloak. It permeated the…

— Evette Davis

“After she had gone he sat on alone, and the lie was still bitter to his spirit as he sat there, and he covered…

— Radclyffe Hall

“He disliked his own lies as much as his parents', but still he continued to lie -- boldly and cunningly. He did this primarily…

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

“There is no other shame like senseless sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The only shame is the sin.”

— Aphra Behn

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of…

— Sharon Salzberg

“The shame of sins!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Although they pretended to be angry, and because that finally destroyed their guilt, some people were each secretly happy to discover that their partner…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“[...] he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame along from…

— Imre Kertész

“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough