#sham

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#choose #dead #did #here #land

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#air #art #curious #ditties #forth

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame. ↗

— M.L. Stedman

#shame #life

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. ↗

— Ellen Key

#besides #corporal #effect #gives #hardening

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt. ↗

— James McGreevey

#ashamed #best #convinced #dishonesty #felt

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#because #devoted #difficult #embarrassed #energy

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#being #brain #control #describe #does

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#embarrassed #long #long road #may #needlessly

Children who are victimized through sexual abuse often begin to develop deeply held tenets that shape their sense of self: 'My worth is my sexuality. I'm dirty and shameful. I have no right to my own physical boundaries.' That shapes their ideas about the world around them: 'No one will believe me. Telling the truth results in bad consequences. People can't be trusted.' It doesn't take long for children to being to act in accordance with these belief systems. For girls who have experienced incest, sexual abuse, or rape, the boundaries between love, sex, and pain become blurred. Secrets are normal, and shame is a constant. ↗

— Rachel Lloyd

#children #incest #love #pain #rape

J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now. ↗

— Julie Anne Peters

#bullying #fat #shame #shaming #suicide