S Quotes
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“Shame-filled pride is never satisfied and always seeks its next fix. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.”
“Shame greatly hurts or greatly helps mankind.”
“Shame has never helped anyone's mental health.”
Source: How to Keep House While Drowning
“Shame has poor memory.”
“Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”
“Shame I do feel. And I know there is something all wrong about me—believe me. Sometimes I shock myself.”
Source: Electra
“Shame I’m all out of virgins and aurochs. What the hell’s the plural of ‘aurochs’ anyway?”
Source: Full Fathom Five
“Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.”
“Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don’t see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that.”
“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
“Shame is a state of mind.”
“Shame is also self-perpetuating. You’re more likely to act in ways that support your shame than ways that challenge it.”
Source: You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms
“Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.”
“Shame is among the most powerful and destructive of human emotions.”
Source: Tajrish
“Shame is an emotion that many rape survivors struggle with for reasons that can be more complicated than we might think. It is a distinctly insidious form of humiliation, the result of a serious injury to our self-esteem, which can be exacerbated by the feeling that we’ve done something wrong. Humiliation is par for the course when your body is used sexually against your will—that part of the aftermath of sexual violence is pretty well understood. Less well appreciated is why rape survivors may end up feeling responsible for what has happened to them. A common assumption is that women blame themselves because of low self-esteem: if only I had dressed differently, if only I had not looked at him that way, if only I had made better decisions for myself. While a woman’s self-image may play a role in how she comes to understand what has happened to her, the sense of responsibility held by many rape survivors is at least partly driven by a dominant worldview regarding personal safety and harm. Although this picture is slowly changing, historically, at least in the West, girls have been taught from a young age that the world is basically a safe place and that so long as you are sufficiently careful and intelligent, you can protect yourself from any serious harm.
Underscoring this narrative is the fact that in our entertainment-saturated media culture, the everydayness of sexual violence against women is overlooked in favour of sensationalized stories of extreme violence. And because rape is typically experienced in private, unlike other traumatic experiences, like combat fighting in war, for instance, the clear evidence of its pervasiveness is obscured from our collective vision. This further reinforces the mistaken notion that the world is a benign place for women—and worse, it makes incidents of sexual violence against women look like a series of unrelated, isolated events when in fact they are the systematic consequence of patriarchal social structures.
So how does the rape survivor reconcile this dominant worldview with what has happened to her? After all, it cannot be true both that the world is a safe place and that you were raped, unless, of course, the rape was your fault. The other alternative is to reject the dominant worldview, but this means accepting the fact that we live in a world where women, by virtue of being women, are at risk. For a variety of reasons, it can be easier and less painful to believe instead that being raped was a result of your own poor choices.”
Source: One Hour in Paris: A True Story of Rape and Recovery
“Shame is an excellent motivator, and failure is key in learning.”
“Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.”
“Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.”
“shame is bullshit.”
“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross until it flies under it’s own liberation and we with it.”
“Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.”
Source: Healing the Shame that Binds You
“Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.”
“Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.”
“Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.”
Source: The odyssey
“Shame is not your friend. It depletes your power. Let go of shame and embrace your magnificence.”
“Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.”
“Shame is power you give to other people.”
“Shame is pride's cloak.”
Source: Selected Poetry
“Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.”
“Shame is removed through love.”
Source: The Practice of Honor: Putting Into Daily Life the Culture of Honor
“Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.”
“Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.”
“Shame is the bane of my existence both as a trauma therapist and as a survivor, as it is one of the most difficult obstacles to overcome in trauma recovery. It can masquerade as guilt, pessimism, or having a low opinion of yourself, but the reality is that it’s much more damaging and invasive, as shame erodes the fabric of our self-worth and identity.”
Source: You Don't Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms
“Shame is the dying embers of virtue.”
“Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.”
“Shame is the first step on the road to penitence.”
“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
“Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.”
“Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.”
“Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.”
Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility
“Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.”
“Shame is the root of all addictions.”
“Shame is the shadow of love.”
“Shame is the silent killer of potential.”
“Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.”
“Shame is useless unless it motivates you to do better. Usually it does no such thing. It only sucks up energy.”
Source: The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
“Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.”
“Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.”
“Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.”
Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)
“Shame keeps us immersed in our sin.”