Illness Quote by Richard Yates

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

— John Grisham

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

— Truman Capote

“Whether he was acting ill or well he did not know, and far from laying down the law about it, he now avoided talking…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The doctor’s words made me understand what happened to me was a dark, evil, and shameful secret, and by association I too was dark,…

— Alyssa Reyans

“Practice courage and reach out! We have to own our story and share it with someone who has earned the right to hear it,…

— Brené Brown

“Despite the doctor’s orders, I bought myself several cartons of cigarettes (…) I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather…

— Marjane Satrapi

He could hardly imagine anymore what his life would be without the weight of his hidden knowledge. He'd come to think of it as…

— Kim Edwards

He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“That was a moment where something clarified about shame for me: it’s not just something negative but some kind of arrow, it’s pointing at…

— Leslie Jamison

“Shame is the bane of my existence both as a trauma therapist and as a survivor, as it is one of the most difficult…

— Amanda Ann Gregory

“He did not know, and perhaps this doctor did. And he could not take the chance of pitting his certain ignorance against this man's…

— John Steinbeck

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

— Andreas Eschbach