#shame

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#rafuel #shame

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations. ↗

— Alice Munro

#secrets #shame #shame

Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface. ↗

— Kirsty Eagar

#shame

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed. ↗

— Katherine Paterson

#shame #shame

Once they know they've got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all world to see. And you become less than it. You become something disgusting. ↗

— Kirsty Eagar

#shame

A blanket could be used to hide my shame and cover my insecurities. But so could a camouflaged condom.
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— Jarod Kintz

#condom #cover #hide #insecure #insecurities

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it. ↗

— Shania Twain

#ashamed #come #embarrassed #experienced #i

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#ashamed #even #evolved #human #imaginative

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#contrary #envy #free #free markets #incomes

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. ↗

— Xun Zi

#aware #bravery #death #dog #drink