Shame Quotes

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a...

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, tha...

. . . have not some religions, including the most influential forms of Christianity, taught that the...

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so...

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are s...

(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Men canreturn to where they have done evil deeds,but men do not return to where they’ve beenabased. ...

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

March 28, 1987: Today I read in the New York Times that all of the officers who killed Michael Stewa...

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool

Proshka was a man of self-esteem. He considered himself a cut above the rest, and had a degree of pe...

I feel even more incapable of returning to Russia the same as when I left it. It's just one more of ...

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be red...

Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his ...

It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governin...

Do not be ashamed of help.

This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Co...

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I ...

More sensitive to Rome's prejudices than I was aware, I recalled that although they grant sensuality...

She kept saying, "My husband will be back soon. He went for help. He'll be back." But that's the kin...

Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dyin...

A man must not be without shame, for the shame of being without shame is shamelessness indeed.

I'm disappointed in myself. In my life. All my life, everything I tried, I only got halfway there. Y...

Holding one's self responsible is a critical feature in stigma and in the generation of shame since ...

As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system d...

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but ne...

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin H...

In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powe...

When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronge...

Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is strong...

The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?"(Unc...

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

I count him lost who is lost to shame.

Look: the trees exist; the houseswe dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only wepass by it all, like a ...

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic t...

I am not ashamed that I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman, only that I was a *good* vacuum-cleaner ...

By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

You can't take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can't really be blamed...

Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have...

But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shap...

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to...

I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame

Money! Money's the curse of man, none greater.That's what wrecks cities, banishes men from homes,Tem...

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice comin...

There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruct...

I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, h...

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That...

They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy...

God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.

If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can...

It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not ...

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous ...

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effec...

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth f...

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will e...

[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved ...

The only shame is the sin.

Shame is an ornament to the young a disgrace to the old.

Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not...

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and ...

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without h...

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is de...

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading thro...

At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds...

It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how ...

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

In fact, all of us are very susceptible to having our humiliating experiences turn to shame, especia...

If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and c...

Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing them is a privilege, and we should always ask oursel...

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we percei...

Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors.

Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community e...

I think we can all agree that feeling shame is an incredibly painful experience. What we often don't...

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't surv...

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordina...

...research tells us that we judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picki...

When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget ...

There is a quiet transformation happening that is moving us from 'turning on each other' to 'turning...

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the pict...

The biggest potential for helping us overcome shame is this: We are “those people.” The truth is…we ...

When we are experience shame we are often thrown into crisis mode...In this mode, the neocortex is b...

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, ...

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.