Shame Quotes · Page 47

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 think women judge other women more harshly, always, which is a shame.

— Courtney A. Kemp

We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race.

— Anonymous

“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.”

— General Iroh

“The cockroach who is dying and the woman who is blind agree not to notice each other’s shame.”

— Audre Lorde

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

— Amy Poehler

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has…

— Heinrich Heine

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the…

— Anonymous

I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappointment, longing, failure and shame, where they stem from…

— Susie Orbach

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with…

— Robert E. Lee

It is obvious, in retrospect, to lean on those who love us most. With depression, in part because of the shame attached…

— Andy Dunn

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame…

— Amanda Palmer

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will…

— Aeschylus

“Shame Brain happens when we see our mistakes as our identity. It’s the difference between “I made an error” and “I am…

— Elizabeth Esther

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The toy business began to drive the [Lucasfilm] empire. It’s a shame. They make three times as much on toys as they…

— Gary Kurtz

“It brings great shame to turn against those ideals. Our kinship. Our honor. It is almost unbearable to think that your god…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

“Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would…

— Anonymous

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as…

— Harriet Martineau

When I was writing the book, I thought "Who wants to hear another story about some actor who lost his way?" But…

— Leslie Jordan

We feel properly embarrassed when we are caught doing something that makes us look inept, knuckleheaded, or inappropriate. Maybe the difference is…

— Lewis B. Smedes

Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but…

— Pythagoras

Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.

— Leslie Jamison

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could…

— Bob Dylan

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his…

— Saint John Chrysostom

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

— Benjamin E. Mays

The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

— James A. Baldwin

“Ukiajiri ndugu usimwonee aibu! Namna hiyo ajira yake haitaathiri nguvu ya mamlaka yako.”

— Enock Maregesi

I've got shame, i've got scars that I'll never show. Im a survivor in more ways than you know

— Anonymous

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

— William Shakespeare

Love all men as God, even if they hurt you or shame you. Be like Gandhi and Christ.

— Neem Karoli Baba

The walk of shame when you have to put something back in a store after your mom says no.

— Anonymous

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is another chance to rise and fight against all odds.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

— Confucius

I think that fear of embarrassment is the essence of the human challenge.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I think it's a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

— Andrew Scheer

Not only was I a victim of viral humiliation but a victim of cyber-bullying.

— Paige