Shame Quotes

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…

— KT Tunstall

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Geneen Roth

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

— Anonymous

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

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

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

— Susan Griffin

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

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Riley Sager

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

— Alberto Manguel

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

— Rokia Traore

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

— Denise Mina

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

— Gabor Maté

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

— Jonathan Swift

It's a shame that it didn't work out with Mick. I was hopelessly in love with him.

— Ava Gardner

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

— Angelina Jolie

Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only…

— Annie Ernaux

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and…

— Maude Royden

Identify the days of the promotion is to show half naked body, perhaps by the beauty of honor and shame are still…

— Anonymous

“I can recognize shame when it’s happening.”

— Brené Brown

There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will…

— Adam Gidwitz

People are obviously going to mention what I look like, but it's a shame it has to be a key part. I…

— Miranda Hart

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I do think that for a queer person to speak truthfully without shame about their own experiences is political.

— Liv Bruce

“(While interviewing at the Hunan women's prison:) 'I have lived with several men, and let them amuse themselves with me. Because of…

— Xinran

Jesus was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the…

— Avro Manhattan