“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”

“I'm not ashamed of anything I've done.
Shame is a useless emotion.”

Candace Bushnell book Summer and the City

“What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”

John Grisham book The Testament

“The secret of happiness is having the freedom to express a full range of emotions without guilt or shame.”

Ralph Smart

“There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.”

Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist

“Antony, however, according to his custom, returned alone to his own cell, increased his discipline, and sighed daily as he thought of the mansions in Heaven, having his desire fixed on them, and pondering over the shortness of man's life. And he used to eat and sleep, and go about all other bodily necessities with shame when he thought of the spiritual faculties of the soul. So often, when about to eat with any other hermits, recollecting the spiritual food, he begged to be excused, and departed far off from them, deeming it a matter for shame if he should be seen eating by others.”

Athanasius of Alexandria (295–373) Patriarch of Alexandria

“Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame — were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcase crippled to abide?”

Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer

“I am actually walking towards the biscuit, I didn't realise I was, but now I do, oh oh oh I am actually eating the biscuit…oh no, oh the shame, oh I don't know what's better, THE BISCUIT OR THE SHAME.. oh oh the shame.”

Dylan Moran (1971) Irish actor and comedian

“Music enters the soul when the sound generates emotion.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer