...for those of us who never do these things at all, there…

“I am transported back through the years; how quickly that familiar rush of shame washes over me: shame at being left out, being left…

— Laura Marshall

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

— Ugo Betti

“If shame still has any meaning in this hell we're expected to live...it is thanks to that person who had the courage to go…

— José Saramago

“My nephew. He was a law student. A good Christian. He never kept girlfriends. He never missed a ceremonial meal.”

— S. A. David

“I started to feel that nagging sense of shame again, an acute awareness of my own inability to share in his [my grandfather's] optimism.”

— Téa Obreht

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

— Amanda Palmer

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

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“there have always been those who have filled their bellies because they had no sense of shame,”

— José Saramago

“We're so intelligent now that we're too smart to survive. We're so well informed that we lost all sense of meaning. We know the…

— Bruce Sterling

“A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human…

— Merle Fossum

I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and seems to…

— Mark Fisher

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

— Colin Powell

We need to create a sense of shame about racism, and about leaders who deliberately mislead and lie.

— Gavin Esler

Trump has no sense of shame.

— Colin Powell