Shame Quote by Teresa of Ávila

“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.”

— Helen Keller

“As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...”

— John Updike

“we all have more than our share of pains and sorrow. Embarrassments and things that haunt us. From that, no one is ever immune,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.”

— Kafka Asagiri

“we should pity those who are jealous of us because it's not their fault they were born less fortunate than ourselves.”

— Katrina Kahler

“we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.”

— Emily Brontë

“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.”

— Mary Balogh

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

— Rachel Abbott

“If I have learned anything it is that pity is more intelligent than hatred, that mercy is better than justice, that if one walks…

— Philip Gibbs

“to him that is pitiless the deeds of pity are ever strange and beyond comprehension.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“There is no one in the world to bother the one who wants to see only his own faults, and no one else’s.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.”

— Asa Don Brown