Shame Quotes · Page 30

Silence is not just about secrecy, Your Majesty. It is grief and it is shame.

— Melina Marchetta

“There is no shame in not knowing. There is shame in not finding out.”

— James Egan

I don't really get embarrassed because my whole life has been one big embarrassment.

— Joe Gatto

I see the guilt through your shame, I see your soul through your window pain

— Lil Wayne

“How is it that shame affixes itself to the violated, and not to the violator?”

— Janet Benton

I think it's a disgrace that we're allowing extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

— Andrew Scheer

If the only people who can succeed in politics are people who go in at 25, that'd be too bad. That'd be…

— Michael Ignatieff

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

— Ugo Betti

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn…

— Roger Zelazny

A lot of people body shame me because I am very thin. They say I have a 'boy's body,' or that I…

— Ananya Panday

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea…

— Nick Cave

I've always enjoyed visiting India and we usually go to Mumbai or Delhi a few times during the season. It's a shame…

— Nico Hulkenberg

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere…

— Horace

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

— William Saroyan

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that…

— Johnny Otis

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only…

— Jennifer Egan

Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is…

— Oliviero Toscani

Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be…

— Milan Kundera

“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings…

— Alison Miller

“His words held a mixture of embarrassment and anger, the latter caused by the former. He knew he couldn’t remember anything, and…

— Dan Wells

“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR;…

— Agnostic Zetetic

“There she stood, hiding; the mother without child, the voiceless woman full of anger. Her smoked nails hammered her evaporated heart snivelling…

— Laura Gentile

The ugly truth about being butt hurt is even if you say you're not, it's obvious that you are

— John Vercetti

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help

— Anonymous

“the bigger the society is, the less functional shame becomes.”

— Christopher Ryan

“If I'm going to be rejected, I'd like it to come complete with humiliation.”

— Katja Millay

Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

— Francis Quarles

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

— Rabindranath Tagore

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

— Phaedrus

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

— Janet Malcolm

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

— Harriet Martineau

“Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.”

— Julia Quinn

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

— Stephen King

Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not.

— Mason Cooley

“I get a small quiver of shame in my stomach whenever I remember it.”

— Lemony Snicket

It's Friday! I can't wait to be ashamed of what I do this weekend.

— Anonymous

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

— Miranda Hart

Alcohol in families is often kept secret. There's a sense of shame.

— Geraldine James