Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
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Orson Scott Card
I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution - such is not my taste. I wish...
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Anonymous
[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the original–one emotion that time could never fade, and that would drag you back any number of years into the pure,...
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Laini Taylor
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Jonathan Swift
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
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Charles Dickens
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