Shame

Shame

Shame is, variously, an affect, emotion, cognition, state, or condition. The roots of the word shame are thought to derive from an older word meaning "to cover"; as such, covering oneself, literally or figuratively, is a natural expression of shame.

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Famous quotes containing the word shame:

    “The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

    “What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
    —Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)