Shame Quote by Téa Obreht

“I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when…

— Michael Ignatieff

“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 goal is to learn to recognize when we are experiencing shame quickly enough to prevent ourselves from lashing out at those around us.”

— Brené Brown

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

— Rachel Abbott

“For so many years I thought my life was difficult; I thought I understood what it meant to suffer. But this. This is something…

— Tahereh Mafi

“When I think about all the time I wasted feeling guilty and ashamed about things I should have embraced long ago, it fills me…

— Nathan Rabin

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

— Cesim

“at that moment experienced the painful internal feeling of that peculiar spedes of shame, which well-constructed minds feel when they see others express a…

— Walter Scott

“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

“Guilt, of course, is feeling bad about one's actions, but shame is feeling bad about oneself.”

— Gregory Boyle

“Resentment bred shame, and shame in its turn bred more resentment.”

— Aldous Huxley

“One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman