Shame And Embarrassment Quotes

#1. Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

Alan Moore

#2. We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes.

Marianne Williamson

#3. The outside air had altered her mood, from an unsettled elation to something within reach of embarrassment, even shame.

Alice Munro

#4. The extraordinary power of influence is now within everyone's reach. Recent graduates, executive assistants, project managers, and business leaders can all benefit from Monarth's simple steps for 'getting everyone to follow your lead.'

Marshall Goldsmith

#5. There's the unusual stuff that psychopaths do - impulsive antisocial behavior, beginning in childhood - and there are the moral emotions that psychopaths lack. They feel no compassion, guilt, shame, or even embarrassment, which makes it easy for them to lie, and to hurt family, friends, and animals.

Jonathan Haidt

#6. When one lives with problems of importance, the prostitute is ideal. You pay, and whether or not you fail is of no importance. She doesn't care.

Alberto Giacometti

#7. If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#8. Mae's first impulse was to die of shame, but she realized after a hot, stomach-clenching moment that this was probably impractical.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Semir Zeki

#10. If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.

Stephen Fry

#11. We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Virginia Woolf

#12. For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

Jason Segel

#13. You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#14. The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#15. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. Fat

Neil Gaiman

#16. Childhood is what ended me up in the hospital and teetering on the edge of deathly alcoholism. It was really good for me to accept it. To accept all the embarrassment and the shame so I don't feel like I used to.

Augusten Burroughs

#17. Lamont, like the judge?"
He tipped his head in embarrassment and looked away quickly. She smiled kindly at him. The two great sources of shame: privilege and penury.

Denise Mina

#18. Live or dead, no creature might escape the unfolding of its own actions. He

R.A. MacAvoy

#19. I'm a bit of a speed demon. I ride my motorbike every weekend. I've had bikes since I was a kid and my 11-year-old brother, who's like my son, has an identical motocross bike to me, except smaller. Everything I do he wants to do.

Kelvin Fletcher

#20. I took an acting class for 10 seconds before I played a lead in a student movie. I showed the film to an agent who said he would send me on interviews but wouldn't sign me.

Kirstie Alley

#21. Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It only kills the brain cells that contain good sense, shame, embarrassment, and restraint.

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

Evan Davis

#23. Arguments that we will never stop all shootings by restricting access to such weapons fails to account for our strong and common desire at least to stop many of them - or any of them.

George Takei

#24. All the embarrassment in the world won't make a mistake go away. And although feeling bad is normal, letting shame own you is not.

Joyce A. Scott

#25. The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.

Mark Shields

#26. Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

Douglas Adams

#27. In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. 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