I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan SwiftYou know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
David MametTags: inspirational shame survival
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Charles DickensTags: sorrow shame crying tears
You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.
Alice MunroImagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
Isaac AsimovTags: science school writing belief home thought ignorance shame bible library the-bible resentment leader bitter childish childish-beliefs guide guides ignore imagine invade leaders uneducated unimaginative unthinking
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
Charles DickensTags: sorrow shame crying tears heartfelt
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me.
Elizabeth GaskellTags: love deception classic shame falsehood dishonor
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
Craig ThompsonTags: shame
I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
Kathryn LaskyTags: shame
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
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