Top 100 Shame Is Quotes
#1. Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.
Marcus Brigstocke
#2. Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.
Christiane Northrup
#3. Shame is deeply rooted in identity. And the "self-ideal" we create for ourselves can often incorporate a lot of expectations that simply aren't included in God's ideal for us.
Matt Chandler
#4. Shame is much more likely to be the cause of destructive behavior than the cure. Guilt and empathy are the emotions that lead us to question how our actions affect other people, and both of these are severely diminished by the presence of shame.
Brene Brown
#5. We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it's dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.
Brene Brown
#6. 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
#7. Guilt is a hunter.
Fate is a hunter.
Shame is a hunter.
Fear is a hunter.
Ruta Sepetys
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Livy
#13. Shame is a shackle. Free yourself.
Matt Haig
#14. Shame is the feeling you get when you believe that you're not worthy of anyone caring about you or loving you. That you're such a bad person that you can't even blame other people for not caring about you.
Brene Brown
#15. Shame is the demon that keeps many of us trapped in our pain; healing comes when we gain the courage to confront our demon(s).
J'son M. Lee
#16. When the culture of an organization mandates that it is more important to protect the reputation of a system and those in power than it is to protect the basic human dignity of individuals or communities, you can be certain that shame is systemic, money drives ethics, and accountability is dead.
Brene Brown
#17. False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
Hesiod
#19. Well, no. They are both serious epidemics, but shame is a silent epidemic. People understand violence and can talk about it. We're still afraid of shame. Even the word is uncomfortable.
Brene Brown
#20. Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.
Claude Lelouch
#21. The irony of informing nearly naked people in a wilderness setting about the story of naked Adam and Eve eating the fruit of knowledge and inventing the fashion industry due to a sudden need for clothing to hide their shame is not lost on Williams.
Sarah Vowell
#23. 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
#24. When you feel spontaneously excited by something - a new career you never thought about, a haircut you see in a magazine and want - shame is the voice that brings you back down to earth.
Augusten Burroughs
#25. A.J. finds that he cannot make eye contact with either his daughter or Lambiase. It is twenty-nine degrees, but shame is keeping him warm.
Gabrielle Zevin
#26. What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
#27. Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one's authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.
John Bradshaw
#28. There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.
Alison Croggon
#29. Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
Craig Thompson
#30. There's no shame in admitting what you don't know. The only shame is pretending you know all the answers.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#31. shame is the voice of perfectionism. Whether we're talking about appearance, work, motherhood, health or family, it's not the quest for perfection that is so painful; it's failing to meet the unattainable expectations that lead to the painful wash of shame.
Brene Brown
#32. I'm not sure if the shame/guilt distinction resonates for me. I just know that shame is a debilitating emotion that is perpetuated by Church and State.
Marilyn Dumont
#35. Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don't see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that.
David W. Earle
#36. Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.
Candace B. Pert
#37. The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.
John Bradshaw
#38. The shame is disguised here as helpful. But both people in this conversation would know it was bullying.
Augusten Burroughs
#39. Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.
Bill Konigsberg
#40. I don't know how the Wolfman knows all this, but he's not wrong. My warm cheeks turn scalding hot.
"Your shame is a good sign. You may break sooner than I thought. The breaking is good. It purifies.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#41. When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.
Max Anders
#42. There is no shame in failure. For a warrior the only shame is in not trying.)
Dave Grossman
#43. Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.
Anais Nin
#44. But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.
Andreas Eschbach
#45. An immature parent with unresolved issues and repressed shame can also transfer his or her shame to us. This interpersonal transference of shame is referred to as induced shame.
John Bradshaw
#46. A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.
Mencius
#47. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done. Shame is a useless emotion.
Candace Bushnell
#48. Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.
Francesco Petrarca
#49. Shame is a a choice Katie. It's not how I want you to feel or how God wants you to feel."~Asher Powell
Tammy L. Gray
#50. Often times, "shame" is the word that best describes reality.
Carroll Bryant
#51. Shame is real pain. The importance of social acceptance and connection is reinforced by our brain chemistry, and the pain that results from social rejection and disconnection is real pain.
Brene Brown
#52. Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing we are flawed and therefore unworthy of acceptance and belonging.
Brene Brown
#53. I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#54. To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.
Flora Jessop
#55. Shame isn't a quiet grey cloud, shame is a drowning man who claws his way on top of you, scratching and tearing your skin, pushing you under the surface.
Kirsty Eagar
#56. Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#57. Our healthy shame is essential as the foundation of our spirituality. By reminding us of our essential limitations, our healthy shame lets us know that we are not God. Our healthy shame points us in the direction of some larger meaning. Our healthy shame is the psychological ground of our humility.
John Bradshaw
#58. I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.
Ali Sina
#59. Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson
#60. There is no shame is asking for help. We accept the fact that those at the end of life and those at the beginning of life require assistance, yet we somehow believe that adults should be able to be independent in spite of hardship.
Lisa Arends
#61. I told you I wanted to live in a world in which the antidote to shame is not honor, but honesty.
Maggie Nelson
#62. It is normal to be curious. The only shame is if all the musts and shoulds drown out the wants that we hear inside ourselves.
Madeline Hunter
#63. It's shame that gets us killed. Shame is the anchor, the heaviest burden to carry from the battlefield. Fortunately shame was an affliction I'd never suffered from.
Mark Lawrence
#64. I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.
Alison Bechdel
#65. At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by a frenzy of pride which lasts only long enough to drain us, to leave us without energy, to lower, with our powers, the intensity of our shame.
Emil Cioran
#66. Shame is difficult. It's a weapon and a signal. It can paralyze or motivate. My friend Louis CK likes to say that "guilt is an intersection" Getting out of it means making a choice and moving forward.
Amy Poehler
#67. Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone.
And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him.
The shame is overwhelming.
Emma Forrest
#68. [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.
#69. There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
John Tillotson
#70. The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone
Milan Kundera
#71. All my life I have battled the alarm clock, pummeling the snooze button over and over with mounting self-loathing until the shame is finally strong enough to lever me upright.
Isaac Marion
#72. But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
Salman Rushdie
#74. Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.
Erica Goros
#75. Condemnation is a trick of the enemy, not the language of the heavens. Shame is not God's tool, so if we are slaves to it, we're way off the beaten path. And
Jen Hatmaker
#76. Guilt is more about what you do. Shame is more about who you are.
Matt Chandler
#77. What almost no one understands is how every level of severity in this diagnosis is underpinned by shame. Which means we don't "fix it" by cutting people down to size and reminding folks of their inadequacies and smallness. Shame is more likely to be the cause of these behaviors, not the cure.
Brene Brown
#78. A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human being.
Merle Fossum
#79. 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
#80. My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.
Carey Mulligan
#81. Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.
Andrew Comiskey
#83. Shame is life-dominating and stubborn. Once entrenched in your heart and mind, it is a squatter that refuses to leave.
Edward T. Welch
#84. There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.
Robin Williams
#86. It's always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun.
Brene Brown
#87. Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Carl Sandburg
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. One woman said, "Shame is hating yourself and understanding why other people hate you too.
Brene Brown
#92. 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
#93. Victory and defeat are matters of the temporary force of circumstances. The way of avoiding shame is different. It is simply in death.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#94. Unfortunately, accomplishments do not reduce internalized shame. In fact, the more one achieves, the more one has to achieve. Toxic shame is about being; no amount of doing will ever change it.
John Bradshaw
#95. Guilt is about what you do with your dick. Shame is about being a dick.
Neil Strauss
#96. Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.
Marilyn J. Sorensen
#97. The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport.
[Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]
Horace
#98. I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.
Brene Brown
#99. But shame is not a pleasant feeling, and some Japanese politicians are always trying to change our children's history textbooks so that these genocides and tortures are not taught to the next generation. By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.
Ruth Ozeki
#100. Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.
Homer
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