Top 100 Quotes About Shame
#1. Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
Thomas Carlyle
#2. In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."
Robert Reich
#3. Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.
Jessica Zafra
#4. Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.
Maureen Johnson
#5. Whatever happens here, your soul's unbreakable.
He kept his eyes closed.
It's a shame the rest of me is made of fucking glass.
Lisa Henry
#6. I imagine we're safe, happy, and truly in love. And I imagine that I can tell her without shame and stigma attached to my words. I imagine it because I don't know if I'll survive long enough to be able to live it.
Lynnette Brisia
#8. The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.
Dolly Parton
#9. I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.
Karen Joy Fowler
#10. I have lived in Kentucky all of my life. I am married to my high school sweetheart, David, a local police captain who has no shame in telling his coworkers that he is the inspiration for all of my heroes.
Molly Harper
#11. Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
Harper Lee
#12. Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.
Hank Williams Jr.
#13. The simple and honest process of letting people know that discomfort is normal, it's going to happen, why it happens, and why it's important, reduces anxiety, fear, and shame. Periods
Brene Brown
#14. Kitty looked into his face, which was so close to her own, and long afterwards - for several years after - that look, full of love, to which he made no response, cut her to the heart with an agony of shame.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. Shame is all about fear. We're afraid that people won't like us if they know the truth about who we are, where we come from, what we believe, how much we're struggling, or, believe it or not, how wonderful we are when soaring
Brene Brown
#16. It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
K. Pattabhi Jois
#17. It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#19. Kill me once, shame on you. Kill me twice, shame on me. Kill my brother? Oh, it's on. And you are not going to enjoy it.
Mira Grant
#20. Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.
Dan Simmons
#21. 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.
George Bernard Shaw
#22. I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.
Brad Paisley
#23. Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.
Dana Reinhardt
#24. Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care of
yourself? You bet. But a person who's willing to work and pay their own way
can at least take pride in that even if they can't take pride in anything else.
John Hawkins
#26. When you actively engage in gradually refining yourself, you retreat from your lazy ways of covering yourself or making excuses. Instead of feeling a persistent current of low-level shame, you move forward by using the creative possibilities of this moment, your current situation.
Epictetus
#27. I think I've lost a lot of my gay fans to Gavin Henson. It's a shame because I really love them.
David Beckham
#28. If you are filled with guilt and shame, it's because your heart remembers God but your head seems to have forgotten Him.
Kate McGahan
#29. Yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just
Sappho
#30. When you make a promise consistent with what is right, you can keep your word. When you show respect consistent with good taste, you keep shame and disgrace at a distance. When he in whom you confide is one who does not fail his friends, you may trust him fully.
Confucius
#31. She was not light, but she was not as heavy as she should be. Her bones should be made of iron, for what else was fit to support her bravado? It would shame generals. Emperors. Professional pirates.
Meredith Duran
#32. If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness
to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#33. Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.
Jon Jones
#34. He asked me for a light to light his cigarette, and by reason of unaware, it is he that really gave light to me, made me realize how much alike we all are, breathing the same air, beating the same red blood, separated through some fortune and shame in the way of humanity.
Anthony Liccione
#35. There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him.
Chuck Black
#36. The less you talk about your shame, the more of it you have.
Mark Manson
#37. Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.
Ozzy Osbourne
#38. The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#39. The thing about your past ... it never stays there. We just think it does until the time comes for it to reveal itself in all its gory shame. And there's nothing, absolutely nothing a person can do, but watch
Rachel Van Dyken
#40. Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.
Johann Most
#41. Adam gave me a scandalized look. "Fraternizing with the enemy!" he cried. "For shame, wench!
Meg Cabot
#42. For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless, and heartless Zay.
Devon Monk
#43. 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
#44. If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.
Adam Duritz
#45. Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
Ellen Key
#46. Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke
#47. I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.
Julie Walters
#48. 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
#49. It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.
Harold Prince
#50. Oh no! No, you didn't! You done had a buffet and you didn't invite the Simi, for shame on you akri-Caleb! You a mean demon boy! You off the Simi Christmas list for that! No oven mitt for you! Bad, bad demon, bad! Simi
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#51. You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
Victor Hugo
#52. An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.
David Corbett
#53. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
Kirsten Siggins
#54. During sexual abuse, children feel and incorporate the rage, pain, shame, and sense of perversion that the perpetrator is projecting. They take these feelings into the very core of themselves, and they are badly traumatized by the emotions surrounding the assault, as well as by the assault itself.
Renee Fredrickson
#55. I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
Piers Anthony
#56. I thought of going the rest of my life pretending I sprang to life from nothing at sixteen years old and felt my cheeks flush with shame and anger. I was so tired of cowering. I was so tired of hiding. I wanted to tell the truth, to say it out loud.
Meredith Russo
#57. For it will come to pass that even the most corrupt of our rich men will finally be ashamed of his riches before the poor man, and the poor man, seeing his humility, will understand and yield to him in joy, and will respond with kindness to his gracious shame.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#58. One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
Ramakrishna
#59. He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has."
"It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling."
He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. "I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it.
Rachel Hartman
#60. Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.
Mark Millar
#61. Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.
Horace
#62. I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name, That can set that world on fire: Its sound is sweet, its letters flame. I know of a Name, a precious Name, 'Tis Jesus.
J. Chapman
#63. I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
Imre Kertesz
#64. I tossed my shoulders and swaggered away, whistling with pleasure. In the gutter I saw a long cigaret butt. I picked it up without shame, lit it as I stood with one foot in the gutter, puffed it and exhaled toward the stars. I was an American, and goddamn proud of it.
John Fante
#65. Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.
Francis Quarles
#66. That's a shame. A woman as beautiful and sexy as you deserves to have her body worshipped by any man she deems worthy of her bed
Stacie Simpson
#67. I walked, floated, lighter - forty miles, my biggest day yet. I'd lifted the burden of guilt and shame off my body. I held my new hard-won wisdom, the gift three months of walking in the wilderness had carried me to: compassion for my younger self - forgiveness for my innocence.
Aspen Matis
#68. People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.
Barry Ferguson
#69. It was such a shame. Jared was stunningly gorgeous, and once upon a time, he was a good guy. If things had been different, I could be his. Once upon a time, I thought I was his. But I wouldn't be sacrificing my pride to him. Ever. Again.
Penelope Douglas
#70. The hardest period in life is one's twenties. It's a shame because you're your most gorgeous, and you're physically in peak condition. But it's actually when you're most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don't know what's going to happen, it's frightening.
Helen Mirren
#71. People are obviously going to mention what I look like, but it's a shame it has to be a key part. I can't just be Miranda.
Miranda Hart
#72. Hot shame swarmed over me at the naive, star-struck, and broken hearted little girl he saw me as. And it made me mad as hell.
Natasha Boyd
#73. But what gave rise to the swaggering self-righteousness I so often encountered among these students? How could one feel guilt and shame, and at the same time parade one's self-righteousness?
Bernhard Schlink
#74. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. Wisdom is the means that God has chosen for the Church of Jesus Christ to transform the
world and put to shame all the principalities and powers of hell.
Sunday Adelaja
#76. Own your history and be who you are. To hide bits and pieces of yourself out of shame or fear is to be half-alive. To offer only half of yourself to others is to cheat them and yourself.
Margo Christie
#77. But we all must be true to our own nature. Acting as anyone other than yourself merely brings you pain and makes you appear ashamed of who and what you are. Others will feed off that shame, and soon it will be all that you are.
Gena Showalter
#78. We are seeing a changed Mumbai, but having showcased Dharavi in 'Slum Dog Millionaire' brought shame and disgrace to our city. Whenever the firangs visit Mumbai, they must visit Dharavi; it has become a sightseeing spot. However, I feel saddened about it.
Rohit Shetty
#79. The outside air had altered her mood, from an unsettled elation to something within reach of embarrassment, even shame.
Alice Munro
#81. If we keep our heads down, either out of defeat or loss or shame or tiredness ... whatever the reason, we are going to miss the beautiful sun (and Son) that is right there in front of us, shining its warmth on our faces and our souls!
Mary Beth Chapman
#82. Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.
Iyanla Vanzant
#83. It seemed so tawdry what he had offered her - mere money - compared with what she offered him. He offered her an extraneous thing with which he could part without a pang, while she offered him herself, along with disgrace and shame, and sin, and all her hopes of heaven.
Jack London
#84. Marriage may restrict your activity, but it increases your pleasure. It permits sex without shame, fear, or guilt.
Robert H. Schuller
#85. PSA40.14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Anonymous
#86. Guilt is a hunter.
Fate is a hunter.
Shame is a hunter.
Fear is a hunter.
Ruta Sepetys
#87. The shame of fools conceals their open wounds.
[Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]
Horace
#88. I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
Ellen DeGeneres
#89. So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.
David Byrne
#90. I've gotten pretty good at making myself feel ashamed. I can even use shame in a theoretical sense to make myself do the right thing BEFORE I do the wrong thing.
Allie Brosh
#91. Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.
Neal Boortz
#92. Shame, he said, caused me to hide. "And that," he said, "is a problem. Because the more we hide, the harder it is to be known. And we have to be known to connect.
Donald Miller
#93. I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't think it was ever a possibility.
Mickey Sumner
#94. Key Learning: Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists - we're so easy to keep quiet. If
Brene Brown
#95. Our experience taught us we were alone so we have to break through barriers of shame, fear, and habit to realize the time has come to find help.
Jeanne McElvaney
#96. Mom, I feel good. This dress makes me feel like someone I didn't know I could be. I've never owned anything like it. But if when you see this - when you see me- you think it's a pity, that it's a shame I didn't lose a few, then screw you, Mom. Try harder.
Julie Murphy
#97. Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
Fiona Apple
#98. The Master said, Guide the people by law, aline them by punishment; they may shun crime, but they will want shame. Guide them by mind, aline them by courtesy; they will learn shame and grow good.
Confucius
#99. It's affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.
Sharon Salzberg
#100. I don't think closeted homosexual morticians have the market cornered on self-loathing or sense of shame.
Michael C. Hall
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