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“From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.”

Form Left Grief Behinds Moral Perspective Shame Suicide Guilt Wounds Abandon Manipulation Metaphysical Left Behind Committing Suicide

Book:The Hauerwas Reader

Source: The Hauerwas Reader

“The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]”

Fool Shame Wounds Folly Mali

Author:Horace

“There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds the shame we feel in the presence of the victims. For these victims are used to create something, works of art, that are thrown to the consumption of a world which destroyed them.”

World Way Feels Art Used Suffering Shame Victim Wounds Destroyed Thrown Works Of Art Consumption Harsh Embarrassing Uncompromising

Author:Theodor Adorno

“I wonder if at this point, I mean, given [Donald's Trump] noted inability to deal with shame, humiliation and loss, and what seem like epically deep psychic wounds that he carries around, that he just wants to go and be in a place that he feels like he created.”

Ifs Want Feels Mean Seems Given Loss Deals Wonder Trump Shame Wounds Carrie Psychics Humiliation Inability

Author:Michelle Goldberg

“Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.”

Mind Soul Reason Done Action Pain Behinds Smart Conscious Shame Flesh Wounds Confusion Wicked Repentance Perpetual Torment Remorse Ulcers

Author:Plutarch

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”

Ifs Light Past Community Healing Darkness Shame Wounds Spiritual Life Teens Our Past Erase Inner Darkness

Author:Brennan Manning

“With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.”

Men Stills Past Time Memories Shame Errors Wounds Bitter Preparation Flavor

Book:Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus

“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”

Trying Health Fool Exercise Healthy Shame Wounds Diets Healed

Author:Horace

“That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.”

Past Courage Plans Tomorrow Shame Guilt Starting Disappointment Wounds Yesterday Suits Sinking

Book:The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country

Source: The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country

“Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.”

Life Streets Hero Shame Wounds Uniforms Behalf Spit Polished

Book:Maisie Dobbs

Source: Maisie Dobbs

“Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.”

“Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.”

Courage Fool Shame Wounds

Author:Horace

“Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.”

Pain Suffering Song Christ Healing Victory Conflict Glory Crosses Shame Salvation Wounds Ease Agony Conquest Repose

Book:Communicant's Companion

Source: Communicant's Companion