“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.” KnowsShameAddEncountersNervesAnguishFleetingRakesRandom Thoughts Book:The Post-office Girl Source: The Post-office Girl
“In heaven we will sing free of all the shame, sickness and sorrow that we encounter in the here and now.” HeavenSorrowShameEncountersSicknessHere And Now Author:Matt Redman
“The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.” ReasonHumanityChurchShameEncountersTroopsIncapableEasternMonkFanaticsBarbariansSwarms Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.” ActingDoubtShameEncountersWorth ItHumiliation Author:David Mamet
“If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.” IfsHumansPersonsMomentsRealizingOrdinaryShadowConsequenceShameEncountersConcreteBurnedDiscomfortHiroshimaComplicityOrdinary Person Author:Chris Abani
“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.” GivingWellsReasonPastNightGrowsCausesMistakeMiddleGive MeShamePainfulOptimisticEncountersRejoiceWoeMiddle Of The Night Book:At Seventy: A Journal Source: At Seventy: A Journal