Facts Quote by Suman Rai

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same…

— Brené Brown

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

— Christiane Northrup

“I came to feel a certain kind of shame at the aquarium […] [T]here was a shame in being human: the shame of knowing…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look…

— Jonathan Tropper

... there can be no more shameless carelessness than with the food we eat for life itself.

— M. F. K. Fisher

“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

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay…

— Brené Brown

“A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human…

— Merle Fossum

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any…

— Salman Rushdie

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

— Justin Torres

Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

— Dylan Moran

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

— Brené Brown