“What a shame, what a shame, to judge a life that you can't change... What a shame to have to beg you to see, we're not all the same.”

“If shame still has any meaning in this hell we're expected to live...it is thanks to that person who had the courage to go and kill,... Agreed, but shame won't fill our plates,... You're right in what you say, there have always been those who have filled their bellies because they had no sense of shame.”

“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.”

“This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.”

“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”

“What's the fun in standing in the outskirts of love and feeling superior? There's no shame in having got it wrong. Whereas its a shame when you don't even give yourself the chance of getting it right. Better to have loved and lost...”