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“Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.”

Knows Shame Add Encounters Nerves Anguish Fleeting Rakes Random Thoughts

Book:The Post-office Girl

Source: The Post-office Girl

“A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.”

Hate Fate Shame Add Dread Scorn

Book:The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

Source: The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius

“When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.”

Ifs Want Littles Done Evil Enemy Five Prove Shame Angry Add Injustice Curse Obsessed Bless Cursed Hideous

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.”

Feels Trying Ideas Kids Realizing Shame Majority Add Faults Disaster No Idea Reports Recipes Lack Of Education Molestation

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.”

Ifs Happiness Shame Add Defeat Absurd Triumph Foibles Positiveness

Book:The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author

“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”

Men Feels Made War Action Fighting Social Attitude Military Broken Walking Responsible Shame Add Guilt Killing Soldier Bombs Civilians Taboo Vietnam War Proverbial Time Bomb

Author:Philip Caputo

“I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.”

Want Humans Littles Race Members Shame Add Human Race Ashamed

Book:Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as good as another, since the end obtained is always the same. In any case the exceptional, endlessly repeated, is no different than the banal; and unceasing recapitulation can add nothing, in the end, to the sum of experience. I am weary and hopeless three times the dupe. Why have you trained me in the shame of abominable sins?”

May Mean Different Ends Three Sin Cases Shame Add Lust Sensuality Hopeless Weary Three Times Exceptional Dupes Recapitulation

Author:Remy de Gourmont