Shame Quotes · Page 43

“Who wants the humiliation of being father to the human race?”

— Steve Toltz

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

— Brené Brown

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.

— William Shakespeare

A true friend is someone who you can act like a complete idiot in front of and not be the slightest bit…

— Anonymous

“There's something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.”

— Riley Sager

We all body shame and compare bodies, and that needs to go out of the window.

— Alicia Vikander

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

— Anonymous

“We’re all the same to them, Phuong understood with a mix of anger and shame—small, charming, and forgettable. She”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Can I ask you something?" you said. "How did you ever survive that scandal?" She said, "I refused to be shamed." "How…

— Gabrielle Zevin

There's no disgrace in failing, lad, Though friends and foes deride; In fact, a failure's not so bad As never having tried.

— Ken Kesey

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from…

— Ingrid Betancourt

God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family…

— Iain Pears

“There was something fundamentally embarrassing about being a young woman...[the] embarrassment of wanting to be more assured, more substantive, more whole, of…

— Michelle Orange

The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same…

— John Kramer

“Losers are taught to be losers. And there’s only one way to teach a loser — and we know that better than…

— John Tiffany

“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of…

— William J Federer

Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of…

— John Bunyan

Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are…

— William S. Burroughs

Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and…

— Socrates

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without…

— Anonymous

The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,…

— William Shakespeare

We are not preaching the Gospel of a dead Christ, but of a living Christ who sits exalted at the Father's right…

— Henry Allen Ironside

“The greatest gift of having done this work (the research and the personal work) is that I can recognize shame when it’s…

— Brené Brown

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

— Andrew O'Hagan

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

— Igor Stravinsky

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

— Jodi Picoult

“Let no one say it (And say it to your shame) That all was beauty here Until you came”

— Val Lewton

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single…

— Emma Donoghue

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

— Anonymous

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

— Billy Graham

“Be ashamed not of being single, or, unemployed. That comes standard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The embarrassment that you weren't independent, your decisions not your own to make.”

— Chris Pavone

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

— Linda Wisdom

The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

— Rush Limbaugh

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

— Viola Davis

“Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

You Have Such A Pretty Face, Its A Shame Youre Such A Bitch!

— Miranda H

The most awkward place to run into a homeless person is on your way to a Coinstar.

— Anonymous

I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind…

— Yolanda Hadid