#shame

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame. ↗

— M.L. Stedman

#shame #life

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ↗

— Ellen Key

#besides #corporal #effect #gives #hardening

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt. ↗

— James McGreevey

#ashamed #best #convinced #dishonesty #felt

You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#shame #talk #time #love

If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are exaggerated and you cannot reach them, your good feelings from successes may be short lived, and you may feel that you are never good enough. The continued hope for the impossible, the expectation that you will or can be unconditionally loved and adored, is not facing reality but rather holding onto an idealized image of yourself and an idealized version of what others can provide. If this is the case, your sense of self may be threatened by shame and its resulting depression, or by feelings of inadequacy for not living up to your unrealistic ideals. A better understanding of shame may help you recognize your tendency to hide what you feel from yourself and others. ↗

— Mary C. Lamia

#ideals #self-esteem #shame #unconditional-love #love

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words. ↗

— Kong Fu Zi

#deeds #gentleman #his #match #should

The shameful never have dear friends. ↗

— Isaac de Benserade

#friends #never #shameful

I am ashamed the law is such an ass. ↗

— George Chapman

#ashamed #ass #i #i am #law

It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal. ↗

— Sue Johanson

#ashamed #embarrassed #experiences #feel #glorious

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. ↗

— Stephen King

#because #brought #diminish #feelings #get