Top 100 Shame Ashamed Quotes
#1. We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#2. A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric ...
Thomas Huxley
#3. When you're ashamed of their action, to ask them the reason of their actions can make you a fool.
Auliq Ice
#4. To be shame-bound means that whenever you feel any feeling, need or drive, you immediately feel ashamed. The dynamic core of your human life is grounded in your feelings, needs and drives. When these are bound by shame, you are shamed to the core.
John Bradshaw
#5. Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of.
[2000]
Chavela Vargas
#6. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
Candace Bushnell
#8. He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
John Of The Cross
#9. Woodget glanced into the dim shadows behind the trees. "What you be hiding fer?" he called.
"On such a night as this even the greatest may hide and not be ashamed," came the response.
Robin Jarvis
#10. Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
Nelson Mandela
#11. I won't claim I've never in my life done anything I'm ashamed of, but I haven't done anything for a good while. If not everyone would agree with the decisions I've made, that's fine. What other people think has never made a situation right or wrong.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#12. We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?
Jenna Blum
#13. I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.
Leighton Meester
#14. Creativity is the highest form of intelligence. Over time, after developing a more advanced creative brain, I started feeling that my college education was more so something to be ashamed of rather than something to be proud of.
Criss Jami
#15. I think most survivors transfer the shame of their experience into their present-day healing and become ashamed of themselves for needing the time and support
Jeanne McElvaney
#16. What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. Delight in your sensuality, in the dance of your desires. Don't be ashamed of it.
Marty Rubin
#18. When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
Jim Butcher
#19. The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
J.K. Rowling
#20. Don't think you'll shame me with your prim silence. I'm not ashamed in the least. Just because you make friends by acting as though you were found under a turnip leaf and raised by gnomes, it doesn't mean everyone takes pleasure in being prudish.
Tessa Dare
#21. We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.
Chogyam Trungpa
#22. The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#23. It is one of the poorest of human weaknesses that a man would be ashamed of saying he has done wrong instead of so ashamed of having done wrong that he cannot rest till he has said so. For the shame cleaves fast until the confession removes it.
George MacDonald
#24. [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.
#25. The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
Criss Jami
#27. When I think about all the time I wasted feeling guilty and ashamed about things I should have embraced long ago, it fills me with guilt and shame.
Nathan Rabin
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.
Whitney Johnson
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#35. The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Livy
#36. [W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers
Anton Chekhov
#37. It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.
Catherynne M Valente
#38. I feel like it's been important for me to use my own personal experiences with food and money to help people to not feel ashamed. I felt so much shame about my own experiences.
Geneen Roth
#39. For the first time , I am ashamed to be a German .
Wilhelm II
#40. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
Jonathan Swift
#43. The Water said to the dirty one, "Come here."
The dirty one said, "I am too ashamed."
The water replied, "How will your shame be washed away without me?
Rumi
#44. Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.
Paulo Coelho
#45. Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.
Mike Mills
#46. My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
Erich Maria Remarque
#47. It's horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.
Tabitha Suzuma
#48. If you feel ashamed about your need for love & support, it's because you were made to feel this way as a child. It's not a sign of weakness to want affirmation, reassurance or someone to count on; these are natural, appropriate needs. Just make sure to be there for yourself first.
Marcia Sirota
#49. Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.
Mason Cooley
#50. Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.
Katherine Paterson
#51. Shame on you! Think what this child has done! You might not have more courage, but you should be ashamed to show less.
Philip Pullman
#52. Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Jacob Bronowski
#53. I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.
Charles Bukowski
#54. As soon as she (woman) begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought.
Livy
#55. Let us keep our shame and be made clean! Shame is not defilement, though a mean pride persuades men so. On the contrary, the man who is honestly ashamed has begun to be clean.
George MacDonald
#56. It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.
Philip Jose Farmer
#57. Shame exists where there is sin, and so feeling ashamed, particularly when we sin, is natural and healthy. Therefore, shame is not bad, but unless the underlying sin that causes the shame is properly dealt with through the gospel, then the shame will remain, with devastating implications.
Mark Driscoll
#59. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#60. There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.
Virginia Aird
#61. There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.
William S. Burroughs
#62. 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
#63. For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.
Charles Kingsley
#64. There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.
George Carlin
#65. Have the courage to read this book, for in the first place it will make you ashamed, and shame, as Marx said, is a revolutionary sentiment.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#66. In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.
Sophocles
#67. When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.
Robert Redford
#68. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
Pericles
#69. Delight in your body, in your sensuality. Don't be ashamed of it.
Marty Rubin
#71. What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all. When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
#72. 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
#73. Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of the disease - and the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic is edifying, isn't it? Shame shuts down productive thinking, and I'd like to open the doors. It's a first step.
Laura Mullen
#74. She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.
Robin Hobb
#75. I felt ashamed."
"But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?"
"No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal
of being a mortal."
"But how could you help that?"
"Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?
C.S. Lewis
#76. Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.
Suzette Boon
#77. It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
Douglas Hyde
#78. I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#79. Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.
Shannon L. Alder
#80. The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.
D.H. Lawrence
#81. The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of ... But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.
Shams Tabrizi
#82. Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.
Andrew Ashling
#83. The worst things that people do to us always make us feel ashamed. The worst things that people do always strike at the part of us that wants to love the world. And a tiny part of the shame we feel, when we're violated, is shame at being human.
Gregory David Roberts
#84. You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#85. And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#86. Many survivors refuse to talk about what they went through but I've never been ashamed to have been in one of those places. The shame is not mine; the church should be ashamed. They say now they're sorry - what they mean is, sorry they were found out.
Mary Norris
#87. She's not ashamed of loving, although those she's loved are few in number; it was/is sweet and true. She's only ashamed she used love as an excuse.
Donna Lynn Hope
#88. Malkin concluded with this advice for parents: Be "prudes." Be "rude." Be "shrill." And never, ever feel ashamed for asking out loud, "Have you no shame?"[30]
James C. Dobson
#89. 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
#90. I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.
Kathryn Lasky
#91. Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before
more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
Charles Dickens
#92. When I feel ashamed, it means I feel there isn't just something wrong with what I've done, there is something wrong with who I am. Shame is often a hidden emotion and it can be paralyzing in its power.
Desmond Tutu
#93. Never be timid about your own pleasure. Don't be ashamed to come.
Abigail Barnette
#94. Even the oldest trees aren't ashamed to stand naked.
Marty Rubin
#95. God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.
Toni Morrison
#96. No one should be ashamed to speak up. Shame makes it easy for neglect and abuse and bullying to stay huddled together in their dark corner. It's time to throw the switch on this spotlight. If I can inspire other kids to speak their truth, then everything I've been through will have been worth it.
Susane Colasanti
#97. I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#99. Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
Bill Clinton
#100. I wear a taint of rationing, that's all. I have the thready, ashamed look of a reduced person who assumes there is a worse reduction to come.
Morag Joss
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