The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
Let life be short; else shame will be too long.
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
We’ve all done things we’re ashamed of, but that does not signify that we have to continue doing them.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
To be ashamed of one’s immorality is a step on the ladder at the end of which one is ashamed also of one’s morality.[Sich seiner Unmoralität schämen: das ist eine Stufe auf der Treppe, an deren Ende man sich auch seiner Moralität schämt.]
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.
The bashful only lose in the game of love.[Il n’y a en amour que les honteux qui perdent.]
Shame has a short memory.[La vergüenza tiene mala memoria.]
