Shame Quotes · Page 32

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

— Justin Torres

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

— Michel de Montaigne

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Shyness can become a serious problem when it is rooted in toxic shame.”

— John Bradshaw

Now with all your pride you still can't look me in the eyes and now in all your shame. You can't even…

— Saliva

“Fool me once, shame on you fool me twice, shame on me fool me thrice, I'm gonna get the frying pan!”

— Anthony Liccione

“To keep dignity, and give honor when it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace.”

— Orson Scott Card

You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.

— Billy Joel

How vast the benefits divine which we in Christ possess! We are redeemed from guilt and shame and called to holiness. But…

— Augustus Toplady

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive…

— Peter Ackroyd

“... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being…

— Brene Brown

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly…

— John Calvin

Take pride in the shame that comes with facing the Truth, for even that shame is a might instrument for the Lord…

— Anonymous

That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you…

— Kevin Keck

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult…

— Paul Bloom

“Despite the doctor’s orders, I bought myself several cartons of cigarettes (…) I think that I preferred to put myself in serious…

— Marjane Satrapi

“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go…

— Carolyn Spring

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with…

— Sean Brady

In Britain, when the working class are summoned for fiction, it's 'isn't it a shame, isn't it a pity, isn't it awful,…

— Steven Knight

“Where are you, Adam? According to the book of Genesis, Adam went into hiding after the fall. By trying to be more…

— John Bradshaw

“The agony of this chronic stage of being cannot be endured for long. At the deepest level, toxic shame triggers our basic…

— John Bradshaw

Be strong: we are not here to play, to dream, to drift, we have hard work to do and loads to lift,…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I…

— Augusten Burroughs

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

— Brené Brown

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

— David Mamet

I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

— Susannah Constantine

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.

— Ruby Bridges

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.

— Thomas Browne

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

— John Donne

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

— Claude Lelouch

I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

— Brad Paisley

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.

— John Perry Barlow

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

— Philip K. Dick

I turn to You My heart full of shame, My eyes full of tears. Bestow Your Forgiveness and Mercy Upon me. Ya…

— Rose

“Unlike guilt, which is the feeling of doing something wrong shame is the feeling of being something wrong.”

— Marilyn J. Sorensen

“Don’t curse the gods; you will feel shame when you have to call on them for help”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

— Amanda Palmer

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Embarrassing facts, those would really help our children remember their classroom lessons better.”

— Bauvard