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“I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.”

I Can Lying Fire Fields Cold Bears Eternal Shame Endless Void Frozen Scorpions

Book:The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

“And when April like an over-lustful lover leaped upon the lush flanks of the Downs there would be yet another child in the wretched hut down on Nettle Flitch Field, where Meriam housed the fruits of her shame.”

Children Would Be Fields Lovers Shame Fruit Wretched April Huts Lush Lustful Nettles

Book:Cold comfort farm

Source: Cold comfort farm

“When the Pleiadians speak of letting go, they transmit a letting go energy through our energetic field. As a human being, we've been holding on for lifetimes, really holding on to the illusion strongly, holding on to the shame, the guilt, the sadness, all the things we've lived through, all the experiences we have allowed ourselves to create for ourselves in order to learn. We've held on to the pieces of us - the anger, the frustration and the pain.”

Humans Pain Order Energy Speak Human Beings Pieces Sadness Fields Letting Go Illusion Shame Guilt Lifetime Frustration Holding On Energetic Transmit

Author:Christine McCormick Day

“It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, "Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more."”

Want Littles I Can Use Shows Universe Fields Shame Insight Connected Substitutes Relative Wow Representation Imagery Stunning

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I just feel compelled to continue to be transparent. It just really levels the playing field and eradicates the shame that I have, or that one might have, about being human. So I'm going to just keep going.”

Feels Humans Might Levels Fields Shame Keep Going Being Human Compelled Transparent Playing Fields Level Playing Field

Author:Alanis Morissette

“As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.”

Should Fields Concerned Shame Stuck Journalism Mediocrity Apathy Hacks Stagnant Bogs Myopia

Book:Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.”

Ifs Guy Sleep Fields Color Shame Lips Bulls Bicycle Gloss No Sleep Lip Gloss

Author:Tori Amos

“Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.”

Source: Finding a Form: Essays

“And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.”

Way Rooms Fields Students Revolution Shame Tired Arguing Invisible Aspiration Pushing Utopia

Author:Lauren Berlant