I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.
Leo TolstoyI was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?
Janet FitchTags: mothers chains prisoners ashamed know mortified
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
William FaulknerTags: honesty yourself ashamed
Every time you show your feelings, you apologize. Have you ever had an emotion in your life that you weren't ashamed of?
R.J. AndersonTags: apologies ashamed ultraviolet
For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone.
Markus ZusakTags: words writing ashamed okayness
O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live...
Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us...
The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?"
-Salvian
Tags: evil shame sin vices vice sins sad-but-true ashamed romans barbarians evil-men impurity still-true-today impurities shame-of-society shameful evil-people evil-thoughts dual-meaning evils
I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because he's ashamed. Not the cleansing hunger of the devout, but the feverish hunger of the hypocrite. I let her go every evening only because there's nothing I can do to stop her.
Mohsin HamidTags: yearning hunger letting-go hypocrite ashamed fasting cleansing devout
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.
Jim CraceTags: secrets thoughts ashamed
If you feel ashamed about your need for love
Marcia SirotaTags: weakness shame needs emotional ashamed needy
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