Shame Quotes · Page 45

Its a shame when attractive guys are the disrespectful ones...

— Anonymous

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

— Seneca the Younger

“If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Oh, yes, he’d spent a good portion of his day in self-pity. And now? Now he felt shame.”

— Cathy Maxwell

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

— Iyanla Vanzant

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

— Jock Sturges

I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.

— David Furnish

We are constantly dealing with the embarrassment of being alive.

— Ayo Edebiri

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

— Max Weinberg

So much shame goes hand-in-hand with an eating disorder, with addiction of any kind. It's very lonely because you don't know how…

— Andi Oliver

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

— Brené Brown

There can be a lot of shame and guilt after I get unwell in front of people. But I want to be…

— Lola Young

Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother…

— Kathryn Stockett

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain…

— James Spader

“Once they know they've got a hold of your shame, they can shake it out and hold it up for the all…

— Kirsty Eagar

It's really important that we take away the shame associated with female hair loss and hair balding. It's just another beauty issue…

— Huda Kattan

I read a lot of studies about the fact that there is a bias in the way health care is doled out,…

— Shonda Rhimes

“Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and…

— David W Earle

Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just…

— Judah Smith

“You will quite likely encounter the notion that we create our own reality. This can be an empowering idea and also true…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

When in Gregg v. Georgia the Supreme Court gave its seal of approval to capital punishment, this endorsement was premised on the…

— Thurgood Marshall

Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est."…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I'd listen to things that felt really good in the moment and realize they were clouded by enthusiasm or caffeine. And things…

— Annie E. Clark

“Healthy shame is the psychological foundation of humility. It is the source of spirituality. What I discovered was that shame as a…

— John Bradshaw

Pathetic isn't something I would normally call myself, but looking back I'm ashamed at how blind I really was.

— Anonymous

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

— Mark Twain

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Geraldine James

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

— Anna Held

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls

— Michelle Malkin

Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.

— William H. Ginsburg

“There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.”

— Virginia Aird

“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.”

— Anonymous

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