Shamed Quotes

#1. A samurai never worries about losing his life. He worries about losing his honour. Being shamed is far worse than losing your life. A samurai is always ready to die - for his lord, for his honour. That's the samurai way

Lesley Downer

#2. As soon as a women gets to an age where she has opinions and she's vital and she's strong, she's systematically shamed into hiding under a rock.

Sarah Silverman

#3. Perceiving a choice between her feelings and her relationships, Dana chose to be liked by others. But the self she displayed was a mask of the person she though others wanted her to be. The Curse of the Good Girl obscured and shamed the most important parts of who she was.

Rachel Simmons

#4. Never be shamed of being Afrikan

Thomas Sankara

#5. respects a weak man. Asher had been old enough to be shamed by his father's scandal. When his classmates had

Ruth Cardello

#6. 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

#7. He wanted to know about day-to-day life in America, what people ate and what consumed them, what shamed them and what attracted them, but he read novel after novel and was disappointed:

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

Aristophanes

#9. God's people cannot be shamed into serving God; they need to be challenged.

Jack Hyles

#10. If you ate nails, your stomach would hurt, and it's a good thing that it would. Eating nails is deadly, thus the pain is helpful. Like this, sadness, anger, and anxiety are not to be feared or shamed, but listened to and decoded.

Vironika Tugaleva

#11. When our instinctual life is shamed, the natural core of our life is bound up. It's like an acorn going through excruciating agony for becoming an oak, or a flower feeling ashamed for blossoming.

John Bradshaw

#12. And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Peter Tosh

#13. He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me ... (109)

Dorothy Allison

#14. It's never the man who is shamed and ruined. It's always the woman - the other woman - who gets burned at the stake." And

Emma Chase

#15. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me.

James Baldwin

#16. If you are a woman, you may need to forgive those whom you have loved or those who refused to love you; those who have hurt you, shamed you, and abandoned you; or those who left you scarred or wounded.

Iyanla Vanzant

#17. So it was that she knew she liked him, loved him as they said in the soppy English books, you were shamed and a fool to say that in Scotland.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon

#18. That was what people did when they wanted to stop a girl from doing something - they shamed her.

Jennifer Donnelly

#19. I never spoke - unless addressed
And then, 'twas brief and low
I could not bear to live - aloud
The Racket shamed me so
And if it had not been so far
And any one I knew
Were going - I had often thought
How noteless - I could die -

Emily Dickinson

#20. I would, if I could, always feed to music. The singularly graceless action of thus filling one's body with roots and dead animals and powdered grain is given some significance then. One can perform as a ritual what one is shamed to do as a utilitarian action ...

Winifred Holtby

#21. Y'all dropped the ball and you should be shamed.

Maya Angelou

#22. I moved to the center of the room, my strappy sandals clacking on the marble floor. "I'm assuming this is where the punishment part comes in," I said. "So do I need to clean all these mirrors, or do I have to, like, stare at myself until I feel shamed or something?

Rachel Hawkins

#23. On Accidentally Eating Dog Treats
Snausages? I've been eating dog treats? Why the fuck would you put them on the counter where the rest of the food is? Fuck it, they're delicious. I will not be shamed by this.

Justin Halpern

#24. I'm all out o faith, this is how I feel. I'm cold and I am shamed lying naked on the floor. Illusions never change into something real. I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn. You're a little late, I'm already torn.

Natalie Imbruglia

#25. It's like having a head full of holes, in which the perfect repository of words have shamed themselves, he lamented.

Diane Ackerman

#26. At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true ... that the material I work most with is emotion.

Albert Paley

#27. That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

Malachy McCourt

#28. He was like a sheep being led to be killed. He was quiet, as a lamb is quiet while its wool is being cut; he never opened his mouth. He was shamed and was treated unfairly. He died without children to continue his family. His life on earth has ended.

Davis Bunn

#29. Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#30. Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.Must hearts forever sufferfrom ignorance and greed?Can bombs heal our soulsor set our spirits free?

Aberjhani

#31. No Australian today is responsible for what happened on our colonial frontier. But we are responsible for not acknowledging what happened. If we do not, our integrity as a nation is flawed and we are shamed as a people for perpetuating a lie.

Timothy Bottoms

#32. The disowned part of self is an energy - an emotion or desire or need, that has been shamed every time it emerged. These energy patterns are repressed but not destroyed. They are alive in our unconscious.

John Bradshaw

#33. Here I was in a group of women, allies, I thought, colleagues, and I felt like I was being shamed for the relatively modest success I had achieved. But Instead of sticking up for myself, I apologized.

Carrie Brownstein

#34. He still had a sense of wonder that gets shamed out of the majority of the teenage population by the time we turn 18. He still loved things about the world.

Cynthia Hand

#35. We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

Gloria Steinem

#36. Simon did not solve problems, he just shamed them into going away.

Sorin Suciu

#37. For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?

William Butler Yeats

#38. Toxically shamed people tend to become more and more stagnant as life goes on. They live in a guarded, secretive and defensive way. They try to be more than human (perfect and controlling) or less than human (losing interest in life or stagnated in some addictive behavior).

John Bradshaw

#39. The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.

Al-Shafi'i

#40. All hail that bane of the upper class, a scene. The spectre of being publicly shamed

Marie Brennan

#41. I would never tell you what to believe, Daniel, so please don't tell me that my opinion is wrong. We should be allowed a few basic human rights in life: the right to decide what goes into our bodies and the right to have an opinion without feeling shamed for it.

Jewel E. Ann

#42. She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

Lorrie Moore

#43. A fantasy is something produced in the imagination, allowing you to indulge in a thought life that is very different from what you experience on a day-to-day basis. Within this realm there is no fear of discovery, no worry about being shamed; here there is only the deepest of pleasures.

K. Kiker

#44. I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no
other man than that I am.

Sophocles

#45. My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#46. He has shamed me, and he'll kill me, but he shan't humble me.

Norah Lofts

#47. Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Christopher Hitchens

#48. She had dreams that shamed her in the morning, dreams where Ronan gave her a white powdered cake, yet spoke in Arin's voice. I made this for you, he said. Do you like it?
The powder was so fine that she inhaled its sweetness, but always woke before she could taste.

Marie Rutkoski

#49. In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

Michael Lewis

#50. I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#51. The moment of queer pride is a refusal to be shamed by witnessing the other as being ashamed of you.

Maggie Nelson

#52. If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

Geneen Roth

#53. When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.

John Cusack

#54. An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not okay, where we were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected even as (we) were taught to believe that we were loved.

Bell Hooks

#55. Better to live shamed than die proud.

George R R Martin

#56. By day the hot sun fermented us; and we were dizzied by the beating wind. At night we were stained by dew, and shamed into pettiness by the innumerable silences of stars.

T.E. Lawrence

#57. I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn't truly communicate.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#58. Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.

George Saunders

#59. My life
has appeared unclothed in court,
detail by detail,
death-bone witness by death-bone witness,
and I was shamed at the verdict ...

Anne Sexton

#60. We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.

Ralph Peters

#61. I have shamed Mr. Cuervo

K.A. Tucker

#62. The woman was sincere - bigots mostly are - but no less dangerous for that, and she shall be named and shamed.

David Mitchell

#63. What does it mean when individuals can no longer be embarrassed or shamed?

Janine R. Wedel

#64. A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?

Robert Louis Stevenson

#65. Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Bob Dole

#66. Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.

Martin Luther

#67. One minute Ender is the beginning and end of the world, the best chance for a great man that I'll ever have a chance to find. The next minute, he's a gay little boy who shamed me. You judge hi according to whether or not he's useful to you.

Orson Scott Card

#68. Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.

Philippa Gregory

#69. That was how he would go on tormenting her, after his physical departure from her life. A baroque plan, byzantine even, a plan that both pleased and shamed him.
He awaited only the night, this one grotesque, terrible night.

Sherry Thomas