Shame Quotes · Page 27

I'm happy with being white. I'm fine with being white. I feel zero shame whatsoever in being white.

— Lauren Southern

There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.

— Robin Williams

The shame would be if Democrats get thrown out of office without ever having tried Democratic policies.

— Bill Maher

If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame.

— Adam Duritz

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

— Colin Firth

Anyone worth knowing breaks once. Once. No shame, no foul if you survive it. You did.

— Karen Marie Moning

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

— William J. Clinton

You can imagine my embarrassment when I killed the wrong guy.

— Joe Valachi

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly…

— John Calvin

That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you…

— Kevin Keck

Take pride in the shame that comes with facing the Truth, for even that shame is a might instrument for the Lord…

— Anonymous

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult…

— Paul Bloom

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive…

— Peter Ackroyd

“... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being…

— Brene Brown

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head…

— Arthur Golden

My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with…

— Maura Tierney

“I wanted no secrets, no screens, nothing between us. Little did I know that if I relished the gust of candor that…

— André Aciman

There's no first impressions anymore. You go to a job interview, and they'll probably Google you. It's a shame - people should…

— Patrick Stump

I had the feeling that if I encountered anyone they would intuit my disgrace and would judge me instantly. Nothing is more…

— Kevin Powers

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Some folks never try to grow beyond lives that have not realized that potential. And as long as they don't regret that,…

— Ken Evoy

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black…

— Maya Angelou

“Volatile expressions of anger and hostility combined with a tendency to blame others often result from feeling shame… If you are shame-prone,…

— Mary C. Lamia

When pride comes, disgrace comes; but with the humble is wisdom. Thank you for another blessed day.

— Anonymous

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

— Mother Teresa

“I put it aside, buried it with all the other small shames and mortifications of my childhood.”

— Robin LaFevers

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

— Mason Cooley

The only shame in masturbation is the shame of not doing it well.

— Sigmund Freud

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“Shame on an orc who run game on an orc. Mother fucker. *revs harley*”

— Thrall

“Resentment bred shame, and shame in its turn bred more resentment.”

— Aldous Huxley

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

— Anonymous

“I was living, in short, on the edge of a landscape of vast shame.”

— Don DeLillo

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

— Howard Zinn

To every politician who is taking donations from the NRA, shame on you.

— Emma Gonzalez

I just feel it's a shame to let fear get in your way and stop you achieving things.

— Alex Sharp

There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

— Juvenal

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

— Carey Mulligan

I don't look back at things in embarrassment; it's more like, 'Damn, I've grown so much from that.'

— Quincy Brown