Enough Quote by Salman Rushdie

“I had a chance to lay it all out on the table, and I didn't. But that's the problem with shame. Shame doesn't like…

— Meghan Quinn

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

— Andreas Eschbach

“It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.”

— Aleksis Kivi

“Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift.”

— William Trevor

“When shame is your own, it’s hard enough to bear. When other people are witness to it, it becomes intolerable.”

— Rachel Abbott

“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.”

— Petrarch

“The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”

— Milan Kundera

“He is afraid the shame will outlive him.”

— Franz Kafka

“I’ve felt alone, cold, and clothed in shame for too long. Let the sunlight be my blanket, wardrobe, and toilet paper.”

— Jarod Kintz

“But the guilt goes even deeper than that. It, too, is dust: Layers and layers of it have accumulated.”

— Lauren Oliver

“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