Best shame & dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.”

Able Imagination Dark Healthy Shame Guilt Corners Driven Monsters Embarrassment Healthy Relationship

Author:Alan Moore

“Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.”

Firsts Stills Light Beautiful Certain Dark Beauty Shame Relative Beautiful Women Light And Dark

Book:Paul Klee

Source: Paul Klee

“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.”

Done Remember Lying Left Dark Regret Proud Shadow Shame Tables Guilt Credit Storm Naked Dust Justify Thick Corpses Undone Forgetfulness Prosecutor Jackals Anubis

Author:Neil Gaiman

“And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the pit and raised to a throne where a jeweled crown is placed on his head. The world has no shame in doing this; it is prompt to hand out both pleasure and pain and has no need of us an our doings.”

World Needs Hands Pain Dark Pleasure Shame Raised Luxury Thrown Crowns Thrones Pits Prompts Caress Pain And Pleasure Doings Bewildered

Book:Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

Source: Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

“This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”

“The ones here know I own this place and they give it space. After all, unlike the Dark-Hunters, I’m not banned from hitting or killing them, and they know it. (Sin) You’re just such a sweetie pie. I can’t imagine why the other Dark-Hunters won’t let you play their reindeer games. Shame on them all. (Kat)”

Knows Giving I Can Play Games Dark Sin Space Imagine Shame Killing Hitting Pie Hunters Banned Reindeer Dark Hunter

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real.”

Feels Littles Made Stills Real Light Night Found Grows Fear Memories Dark Rooms Happened Weight Stronger Shame Details Stuck Made It Remembered Nightmare Chests Fades Dark Room

Author:Sarah Dessen

“No one should be ashamed to speak up. Shame makes it easy for neglect and abuse and bullying to stay huddled together in their dark corner. It’s time to throw the switch on this spotlight. If I can inspire other kids to speak their truth, then everything I’ve been through will have been worth it.”

Ifs Should Has Beens I Can Kids Together Speak Easy Dark Inspire Abuse Shame Corners Ashamed Neglect Bullying Worth It Spotlight Inspire Others

Book:Keep Holding On

Source: Keep Holding On

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.”

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.”

Ifs Men Humans Past Spiritual Dark Forget Effort Divine Shame Unreliable Forget The Past

Book:Autobiography of a Yogi

Source: Autobiography of a Yogi

“We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.”

People Ifs Self Matter Artist Individual Black Dark White Shame Glad Dark Skinned

Book:Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

Source: Langston Hughes and the Chicago Defender: Essays on Race, Politics, and Culture, 1942-62

“When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame. When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived. Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on.”

Source: Sacraments of Desire

“The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.”

Dark Laughing Doors Shame Invites Being Human Malice Meanness Inspirational Sufi Radical Acceptance House Guests Dark Thoughts

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame.”

Should Age Used Suffering Dark Shame Cancer Medical Dark Ages Terminal Terminal Cancer

Author:Luther L. Bohanon

“You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.”

Book Ends Dark Novel Fire Written Shame Over You Realising Bubbles Cathedrals

Author:Michael Cunningham

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