Ain't it a shame?

Ain't that a shame how they f-ck up ya name.

— Lil Boosie

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

— Will Smith

“Shame is the deepest of the “negative emotions,” a feeling we will do almost anything to avoid. Unfortunately, our abiding fear of shame impairs…

— Gabor Maté

“He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either…

— Denise Mina

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different…

— Rokia Traore

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

— Alberto Manguel

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

— Riley Sager

I guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the guy to…

— Rush Limbaugh

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

— Susan Griffin

“Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be…

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power…

— Anonymous

For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe…

— Geneen Roth

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

— Oscar Wilde

It's a shame that when you've actually lived some life and have something to write about, they're saying you're too old to come out…

— KT Tunstall

“So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown’s real traditional sports: shame and silence.”

— Fredrik Backman