Quotes About Body Shame

#1. Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Martha Beck

#2. Happiness as restricted access. Happiness as a country club, a resort, an old boys club for certain boys only. Happiness as body shame, as racism, as transphobia, as misogyny. These are some joys that need killing.

Erin Wunker

#3. Their conversation topics are very rarely the things they want to be talking about, and I could write ninety-seven books on body shame and clothing etiquette before you would get even close to understanding them.

Matt Haig

#4. To the girl who hid in the shadows and tried to body-shame me, I'm sorry you thought that was a good use of your time and energy. I hope you find happiness within yourself. You deserve that. We all do.

Jen Wilde

#5. This body needs me to say yes to it, just as it is right now. No more singing that same old jingle of body-shame and dieter's promised lands.

Kimber Simpkins

#6. She hated perfume. It was a cover for poor hygiene or for body shame. Clean people never aspired to the floral.

Lauren Groff

#7. This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

Ruby Wax

#8. All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to God. In his eyes, regardless of what I did or didn't do today, I am loved. I am His, so I am enough.

Anna White

#9. My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

Mary Manin Morrissey

#10. They say the brain never ages it's a shame it can't teach the body that trick.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. Shame and blame should have no place in our body, mind, or spirit.

Asa Don Brown

#12. Erika glides down into the warmth, the body-warm brook of shame, a bath in which one submerges cautiously because the water is rather dirty.

Elfriede Jelinek

#13. No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

Socrates

#14. I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

Stephanie Roberts

#15. Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of body; and you can have this experience if your are negligent, because these things don't normally happen by themselves.

Socrates

#16. Delight in your sensuality, in the dance of your desires. Don't be ashamed of it.

Marty Rubin

#17. Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

Eliza Farnham

#18. I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

Philip Roth

#19. Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.

Christiane Northrup

#20. 28. If a person gave your body to any stranger he met on his way, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in handing over your own mind to be confused and mystified by anyone who happens to verbally attack you?

Epictetus

#21. Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

William Hazlitt

#22. The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

Caitlin Stasey

#23. Let go with me. Let me comfort you with my body ... there's no shame in forgetting for a night even if you know you'll remember in the morning.

Tiffany Reisz

#24. Bodies can catch feelings as easily as catch fire: affect leaps from one body to another, evoking tenderness, inciting shame, igniting rage, exciting fear-in short, communicable affect can inflame nerves and muscles in a conflagration of every conceivable kind of passion

Melissa Gregg

#25. No shame in loving an ain't-shit man, long as you get it out your system good and early. A tragic woman hooks into an ain't-shit man, or worse, lets him hook into her. He will drag her until he tires. He will climb atop her shoulders and her body will sag from the weight of loving him. Yes,

Brit Bennett

#26. Who said anything about shame?" She gestured down to her naked body, even though it was covered by the blanket. "Honestly, I'm surprised you're not strutting about, boasting to everyone. I certainly would be if I'd tumbled me.
"Does your love for yourself know no bounds?"
"Absolutely none.

Sarah J. Maas

#27. 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.

Maureen Johnson

#28. It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

K. Pattabhi Jois

#29. That's a shame. A woman as beautiful and sexy as you deserves to have her body worshipped by any man she deems worthy of her bed

Stacie Simpson

#30. I walked, floated, lighter - forty miles, my biggest day yet. I'd lifted the burden of guilt and shame off my body. I held my new hard-won wisdom, the gift three months of walking in the wilderness had carried me to: compassion for my younger self - forgiveness for my innocence.

Aspen Matis

#31. We're so afraid of being hurt that we become the abuser first.

Alaric Hutchinson

#32. Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame.
Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#33. For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind.

Daphne Du Maurier

#34. Wasn't there a tribe in Africa that lashed the dead body to the back of the one who had murdered it? That would certainly be justice - to carry the rotting corpse around as a physical burden as well as public shame and damnation.

Toni Morrison

#35. Cotton rows crisscross the world
And dead-tired nights of yearning
Thunderbolts on leather strops
And all my body burning
Sugar cane reach up to God
And every baby crying
Shame a blanket of my night
And all my days are dying

Maya Angelou

#36. Delight in your body, in your sensuality. Don't be ashamed of it.

Marty Rubin

#37. Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.

Charlie Jane Anders

#38. Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.

Rodney Yee

#39. It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

Marcus Aurelius

#40. It'd be a shame for that beautiful naked body to go to waste, he murmured as he walked over to me and dropped his boxers.

Emma Nichols

#41. Sadie, I can't intervene." He turned up his palms in frustration. "I told you when we first met, this isn't an actual physical body."
"Shame," I mumbled.
"What?"
"Nothing. Go on.

Rick Riordan

#42. If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

Epictetus

#43. It's a shame when a body like that doesn't come with any brains.

Colleen Hoover

#44. I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

Susannah Constantine

#45. Since the second her eyes met those gorgeous blue ones, each look from him had made every cell of her body feel like it might explode. She'd never wanted another man as much as she wanted Brandon James in that moment. And there was no shame in that.

Aria Kane

#46. Resiliency is the body's internal response to a stressful situation.

Asa Don Brown

#47. In a typical college romance novel, this was the moment I would've been waiting for. The validation of all my shame and suffering at the hands of other men: a beautiful boy loved me. What had been done to my body didn't ruin me for Mr. Right. Zippity-fucking-doo-dah.

Leah Raeder

#48. There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.

George Carlin

#49. It is a shame when the soul is first to give way in this life, and the body does not give way.

Marcus Aurelius

#50. Twelve "shame categories" have emerged from my research: Appearance and body image Money and work Motherhood/fatherhood Family Parenting Mental and physical health Addiction Sex Aging Religion Surviving trauma Being stereotyped or labeled

Brene Brown

#51. But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can.

Sarah Porter

#52. We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.

Jim Cooper

#53. ...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.

Zak Ebrahim

#54. Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

John Dryden

#55. Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself

Betty Dodson

#56. I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.

Gabourey Sidibe

#57. A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.

Susan Crandall