Shame Quotes

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.

To know shame is to be human. And to have the capacity for empathy is also to be human.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can...

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known,...

Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If ...

I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ash...

One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering ...

it is so dark now with the sadness ofpeoplethey were tricked, they were taught to expect theultimate...

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man...

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of eart...

The girl's life had been squandered in the streets, and among the most noisome of the stews and dens...

If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, tho...

I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of ...

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’...

People generally don’t suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer fro...

The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in...

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, ...

Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potat...

We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't kno...

Strong sun, that bleachThe curtains of my room, can you not renderColourless this dress I wear?—This...

Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private r...

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with...

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assista...

What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To...

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly...

Shame has poor memory.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ou...

The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisite...

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my ...

To know that we are only angels weighed down by filth, free of guilt? The bacteria in our bellies ar...

Who exactly am I saving from shame, when I’ll live and die in every possible way?

Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not talk...

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpa...

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature...

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of wha...

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st...

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.