My Shame Quotes

#1. Well sue me for staring. I'd be willing to scrub away my shame on his washboard abs.

Tia Giacalone

#2. I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime.

Paulo Coelho

#3. I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

Jodi Picoult

#4. I stop, because a little piece of me can't help hoping. I turn to look at him, and know, to my shame, that he could break my resolve with a single word.

Cristin Terrill

#5. My shame circuits burned out from overuse years ago.

David Wong

#6. I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

Jerry Stahl

#7. Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!
He is my son; yea, and therein my shame;
Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.

William Shakespeare

#8. Although I had never known anything but poverty, I knew that no amount of wealth could diminish my shame." From: Caspian Diary

J.M. Sandler

#9. I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings for my shame and feebleness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#10. To my shame, my nation and the church of the lord Jesus Christ in my continent is covered head to toe in this ignorance.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. In a typical college romance novel, this was the moment I would've been waiting for. The validation of all my shame and suffering at the hands of other men: a beautiful boy loved me. What had been done to my body didn't ruin me for Mr. Right. Zippity-fucking-doo-dah.

Leah Raeder

#12. I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

David Mamet

#13. Lord Jesus, Your love is beyond my understanding but I believe it's true. Right now I offer You my shame, the filthy rags of my past. I choose to step out of this storm of condemnation and into Your peace. Thank You for loving me and for making me worthy, In Your great name, amen.

Sheila Walsh

#14. Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

William Blake

#15. You bore me away, framed me in oak and tinsel, set me above your marriage couch. Unseen, one summer eve, you kissed me in four places. And with loving pencil you shaded my eyes, my bosom and my shame.

James Joyce

#16. [W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#17. Standing there, I loved myself and I hated myself. That's what the black Mary did to me, made me feel my glory and my shame at the same time.

Sue Monk Kidd

#18. Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.

Hartley Coleridge

#19. For my part, I may speak it to my shame,
I have a truant been to chivalry;
And so I hear he doth account me too.

William Shakespeare

#20. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Henry Miller

#21. I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

Ernest Hemingway,

#22. My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

William Shakespeare

#23. That's all I have left now, right? It's just me and my shame.

J.A. Huss

#24. My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

Erich Maria Remarque

#25. I was surrounded by hundreds of drowned children, heads in the water, their little feet in the air.
All the little duckies, with their heads in the water
Heads in the water.
It was my punishment. Honor lost. Everything lost.
Shame is a hunter.
My shame was all around me now.

Ruta Sepetys

#26. You are the magic in my soul. You are as constant in my heart as the moon in the night. You are my other half and I'll always seek you out somehow, even though it puts you in danger, and that is my shame.

Stephanie Dray

#27. Fiction was a way for me to escape into another world. I would lose myself and all my shame, insecurity, and fear in those books. I would let time slip away in the pages of other worlds. Reading was a life long gift I grew to cherish.

Daniel D. Maurer

#28. So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me
the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.

Jessica Sorensen

#29. My lady, it is the lady empress Sextilia Augusta, mother to - ' 'She knows to whom I am mother. The entire world knows to whom I am mother. The entire world shares my shame.' The empress's voice was sharp

M.C. Scott

#30. My brother killed Abraham Lincoln. That is my weight, my shame.

Jane Singer

#31. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He

Rabindranath Tagore

#32. I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

Richard Attenborough

#33. The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

Jean Racine

#34. I'm as embarrassed as hell about it. I purged myself of my shame by buying the Beatles 'all you need is love', one of the most evocative singles of all time.

Jon Snow

#35. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.

Susan Juby

#36. I don't want to be my limitations. I don't want to be my pain. I don't want to be my embarrassment.

Kim Holden

#37. Today I will learn to reject shame. Shame is an overwhelming sense that who I am isn't good enough. I realize that I am good enough, and that my imperfections are part of being human. I let go of shame.

Melody Beattie

#38. In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

B.G. Bowers

#39. And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too.

Richard Llewellyn

#40. Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

John Wesley

#41. Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in
comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.

Martin Luther

#42. I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

Betty Friedan

#43. I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and sour, because I'm poor, and can't enjoy my life as other girls do. It's a shame!

Louisa May Alcott

#44. I let out a string of curses that would put even the boy's locker room to shame, ending with an emphatic kick to the mailbox post.And the worst part was of coure it wasn't there yet. My weird nerves all day were pointless.

Kiersten White

#45. Clothes are the only thing that separates us from animals," my mother said. "Clothes and a sense of shame.

Jenny Offill

#46. Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.

Diane Arbus

#47. Each hour is a room of shame, and I am
swimming, swimming, holding my head up,
smiling, joking, ashamed, ashamed,
like being naked with the clothed, or being
a child, having to try to behave
while hating the terms of your life.

Sharon Olds

#48. Cotton rows crisscross the world
And dead-tired nights of yearning
Thunderbolts on leather strops
And all my body burning
Sugar cane reach up to God
And every baby crying
Shame a blanket of my night
And all my days are dying

Maya Angelou

#49. My brother Felix used to say that my knives would never be as sharp as my tongue, which was a shame.

Rae Carson

#50. Oh Lola's Boobs,' he says into my chest, 'I wish we knew each other better.'
I crack up laughing.
'What's that you say?' he jokes, putting his ear to my right breast. 'You wish you could come out to play more often but Lola doesn't let you? Well, that's a shame.

Bianca Giovanni

#51. I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

Louis Armstrong

#52. My sense of teasing is completely lost on you.", Patrick said, hoisting himself back up. "It's a shame too. Most people tell me my sense of humor is my best quality, only outdone by my otherworldly good looks.

Nicole Williams

#53. Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

Mason Cooley

#54. There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#55. She that in life and love refuses me,
In death and shame my partner she shall be.

Thomas Middleton

#56. My entire demeanor is displaying confusion, guilt, shame, pain, pleasure, and a yearning need for him. Lying beneath this huge man, I feel so very helpless and pinned like a butterfly on a plaque. Lucas's

Erotic Storm

#57. My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

Max Weinberg

#58. Now you die while we live on, and you've no one to blame but your selves. So do not speak of betrayal behind my back, humans. For the Great Betrayal is your shame, not mine. ~ Ayden

Rachel Haimowitz

#59. I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

Daniel Marques

#60. Really, lies are so easy to tell when you don't care anymore, or when you have lost all shame. That is my truth.

Mia Asher

#61. My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something ... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

Rokia Traore

#62. My goal in going public was not to put my extended family to shame, or to get back at Brian for abusing my sister and me; rather, my mission was to give a face and voice to an epidemic that society stays hushed about.

Erin Merryn

#63. My name is Asher Lev ... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years.

Chaim Potok

#64. People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.

Margaret Cho

#65. Shame the rest of you is so plain. My heart pounds.

Veronica Roth

#66. Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

P.C. Cast

#67. I know my name now. Love Warrior. I came from Love and I am Love and I will return to Love. Love casts out fear. A woman who has recovered her true identity as a Love Warrior is the most powerful force on earth. All the darkness and shame and pain in the world can't defeat her.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#68. But the differences between the two races, especially that of colour, led Jefferson to advocate the total removal of the Negroes, after emancipation, "beyond the reach of mixture." My dear Miss Sally Hemings, has the man no shame?

Randall Robinson

#69. I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.

Maureen Brady

#70. It's a big shame that when you have a platform to write about Save the Children, the media interest lies with my moral alignment.

Erin O'Connor

#71. My debauchery I undertook solitarily, by night, covertly, fearfully, filthily, with a shame that would not abandon me ... I was then already bearing the underground in my soul.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#72. My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.

Soren Kierkegaard

#73. Hey, listen,' I say. " Fascinating as this is, we've got to go now. I have to collect the invites for my funeral."
That shuts them up. Fiona looks astonished." Really?
" Yeah." I grab Zoey's arm. "It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!

Jenny Downham

#74. To feel myself. Light as a feather free as a bird, though long since fit to be shot down. Unleash the dog with no sense of shame. Become this or that. Awaken the dead. Wear my pal Baldander's rags for a change. Lose my way on a single-minded quest.

Gunter Grass

#75. I gave My back to those who struck Me, And My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting." (Isaiah 50:6)

Val Waldeck

#76. Out of the woods my Master came,
Content with death and shame.
When Death and Shame would woo Him last,
From under the trees they drew Him last:
'Twas on a tree they slew Him
last
When out of the woods He came.

Sidney Lanier

#77. To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]

Lupe Velez

#78. Lucy: Yes, as usual I bought so many books that my food budget ran out. I was left with no choice but to eat bread crusts. But! On the other hand, this means that I was able to feed my word addiction! I feel no shame whatsoever about eating bread crusts!

Hasebe: Have a little shame.

Karino Takatsu

#79. Since Love has made ruins of my heart
The sun must come and illumine them.
Such generosity has broken me with shame.

Rumi

#80. If you deceive me once shame on you because I have trusted you once and you have deceived me, if you deceive me twice shame on me because I have learnt my lessons and you have deceive me and if you deceive me for the third time shame on me because am a compound fool.

Olusegun Obasanjo

#81. You will be my conscience, and I will be your shame.

Anne Mallory

#82. I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed.

S.J. Watson

#83. My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.

William Shakespeare

#84. Put something in your stomach to absorb the alcohol before you spontaneously combust from the fumes. (Nykyrian)
Yeah, it'd be a damn shame to blow my internal organs all over your new shirt.(Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#85. I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.

Ani DiFranco

#86. Her heart's too hurt ... you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady
she sees shame where some of us just see people.

Margo Lanagan

#87. Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#88. Fool me once,
shame on you!
Fool my bestfriend
your dead freakin meat

Sara Shepard

#89. The truth is, I'm a storyteller. And it scares me, because my training as an academic is that the more accessible you are and the more human you are, the less smart you are. It's a shame trigger for me to be honest.

Brene Brown

#90. stroked that doorway to her soul, stroked that insanity switch in my head. The one that didn't give a fuck about points, shame, or fear, only making her pull my hair, claw my skin, and scream my fucking name.

Lucian Bane

#91. I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

Susannah Constantine

#92. There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

Owen Hart

#93. I didn't need his criticism. I carried enough guilt on my own. I had done everything wrong. I had the highest marks in school but couldn't master common sense.

Ruta Sepetys

#94. It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.

Liz Phair

#95. To say ... that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame.

Luther L. Bohanon

#96. It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.

Steve Brown

#97. Every major life decision I made came from my pain, guilt and shame...even down to the man I chose for a husband.

Elona Washington

#98. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.

Al-Ma'arri

#99. Here it is, 2011, and I feel zero shame when I tell you I would like to marry my smartphone. It is a handful of pure delight.

Lynn Coady

#100. I shut up. I don't fight, I don't scream. Shame rides alongside my terror. But somewhere deep, deep inside, I hear Mom tell me to trust my gut. My gut tells me I am blind and I am lost, and if I fought for freedom now, it would end in my death. I listen to my gut. Because I want to live.

Carolyn Lee Adams