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“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

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

— J.R. Salamanca

“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

“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

“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem,…

— Sharon Salzberg

“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

“Guilt is our morality shame and guards our conscience. It tells us we have transgressed our values. It moves us to take action and…

— John Bradshaw

“Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.”

— Peter N. Stearns

“Can pride and shame be the consequences of the same feeling?”

— Cesim

“At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by a frenzy…

— Emil Cioran

“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

“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