Shame Quotes · Page 52

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

— Euripides

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

— Anonymous

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“A more ancient precedent of ransom, that we may not always be tormented by our shame.”

— Gregory Maguire

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

— Dan Savage

“An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review”

— Robert Uttaro

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

— Kathy Acker

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

— Charles Simmons

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein,…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often…

— Albert Einstein

“Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have…

— Chavela Vargas

“there is a limit of ignominy, beyond which man's consciousness of shame cannot go, and after which begins satisfaction in shame?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to…

— Emil Cioran

“I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and…

— Joe Haldeman

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

— Theodor Adorno

I should have conceived the idea for 'The Mighty Walzer' earlier. A boy who dreamed of winning fame, fortune, and the adoration…

— Howard Jacobson

There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a…

— James Frey

Made up of corallitic accretions and painful increments, lit on rare occasions by bolts of revelation, and then stuffed behind the wainscotting…

— Harold Town

Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into…

— Thomas Hardy

'Cause I'll be there in the back of your mind From the day we met 'til you were making me cry And…

— Kellie Pickler

And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean…

— Plato

“My life in this pit will soon enter its fifth year. For more than forty-two months, I have thought hate, have lain…

— Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen

I am one who shows great respect and commends the Cuban people for having the guts to go over to Cuba to…

— Norman Braman

Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.”

— Aleksis Kivi

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

— Ayn Rand

“I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's no disgrace to be old. But damn if it isn't inconvenient.

— Moms Mabley

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

— Bill Konigsberg

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

— Kevin Kline

“His hair was red, and his eyes were a color blue that put the ocean to shame.”

— Maya Bode

“There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.”

— Craig Johnson

It's not shameful if we made mistake sometimes But the shameful is when you made mistake you not admit it.

— Mariane Corbito

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Beauty if you keep that up, I am goin' to embarrass myself like a schoolboy.”

— Alex Morgan

It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there.

— Emily Atack

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

— Brad Pitt

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

— Francine Pascal

Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.

— Roy H. Williams