Fear Quote by Nikki Gemmell Download Open image ““The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.”” — Nikki Gemmell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dh Lawrence Fear Shame
“I have learned that for me, shame is like kryptonite. It was utterly destructive, a boot on my neck for most of my life.… — Laura Parrott Perry Copy Share Image
“But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.” — Andreas Eschbach Copy Share Image
“I think shame is the most profound of all emotions; I think the world is ruled by shame.” — J.R. Salamanca Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in feeling bad about having to kill. The shame comes when you no longer care.” — Robyn Wideman Copy Share Image
“...it was ludicrous to think that we could just talk our way out of shame, that shame was necessary, that it prevented us from repeating shameful actions and that it motivated us to say we were sorry and to seek forgiveness and to empathize with our fellow humans and to feel the pain of self-loathing which motivated some of us… — Miriam Toews Copy Share
“The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What if shame and judgment are just a stand-in for a lack of love?” — Shannon Kaiser Copy Share Image
“Never miss an opportunity to be truly and deeply humiliated! The shame will carve you down to an individual of exquisite layering, and in… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.” — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Striding, finally, into the solitude. You feel as if part of your body has been ripped from you, as if flesh has been torn… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“So, he feels now, that he doesn't have to try. And you want him more than you ever have before.” — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“Let there be no hesitations, no regrets, no compromises - they are at once cowardly and vain.” — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“You know in this moment that Gabriel is at your mercy, you can do what you want, he is completely yours and with the… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“There were the endless birthday nights and New Year's Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife” — NIkki Gemmell Copy Share Image
“[He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.” — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home. — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term,… — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
People without curiosity are like houses without books: there's something unsettling about them. — Nikki Gemmell Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image