Secrets Shame Quotes

#1. Everyone has secrets. Fiction allows people to see themselves in characters, to discover healing and truth when their 'reputation' or shame won't let them pick up a non-fiction book. They can watch characters struggle, then experience the truth that sets them free.

Susan May Warren

#2. That should be the goal for all art, to be as simple as a flashcard.

John Baldessari

#3. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

Charles Evans Hughes

#4. 'Pitch Perfect 2,' those scenes are super fun. It's just me and John Michael Higgins, and we've been friends for so long, we just have the best time. Anything I do with him is some of my favorite stuff.

Elizabeth Banks

#5. Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!

Charles Dickens

#6. She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it.

Aspen Matis

#7. Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

Helena Christensen

#8. Here's the thing about me: I have a job to do and I do it.

James Murdoch

#9. 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

#10. There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in Russian, not English since there are few readers who've master foreign languages well enough to buy foreign editions.

Alexander Vassiliev

#11. Shame leads to secrets, and secrets lead to lies, and lies ruin everything.

Stephanie Perkins

#12. Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.

Dennis E. Adonis

#13. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

B.G. Bowers

#14. I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens.

Eileen Myles

#15. No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well. But despite everything, we didn't do too badly by one another, we did as well as most.

Margaret Atwood

#16. You love me?"
He answered without hesitation. "With everything I am, baby doll, and everything I'm meant to be.

Kristen Ashley

#17. Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them.

Sharon Salzberg

#18. Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.

Sharon Salzberg

#19. Secrets.
We keep them to protect ourselves.
We keep them to protect others.
We keep them out of shame.
We keep them out of fear.
We keep them... wait... do we keep them for do they keep us?

Ellen Hopkins

#20. From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

John Updike

#21. You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

Alice Munro

#22. The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.

Sharon Salzberg

#23. The link between nudity and sexuality is a modern invention. If there are no mysteries, there are no secrets, no shame when the time comes for him to Change. Our exterior bodies are borrowed treasures.

E.A. Copen

#24. We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.

Haruki Murakami