Aberration Quote by William Morris

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and…

— Arthur Machen

“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

“Shame is a distinct feeling. I couldn’t look at my hands around the coffee cup or hear my own laments without feeling appalled, wanting…

— Jane Smiley

“We must not allow embarrassment to distract attention from elements that make us uncomfortable. Disgust and dread are the sorts of feelings we frequently…

— Lawrence Kushner

The thing that moves us to pride or shame is not the mere mechanical reflection of ourselves but the imagined effect of this reflection…

— Charles Horton Cooley

If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if it had…

— Anonymous

“You fall into thought while staring at the green foliage back here—so much damn green that it envelops you in its cruddy fist—and the…

— Brian Alan Ellis

I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.

— James Douglas

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

— Sylvia Plath

Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something beautiful about ourselves.

— Jeff Cox

“It needs a sort of stretch of imagination to see the obvious objects against the obvious background; and especially the big objects against the…

— G.K. Chesterton