Shame Quotes · Page 29

“I get a small quiver of shame in my stomach whenever I remember it.”

— Lemony Snicket

Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not.

— Mason Cooley

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

— Miranda Hart

It's Friday! I can't wait to be ashamed of what I do this weekend.

— Anonymous

It's far better to make people angry than to make them ashamed.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The journalist confines himself to the clean, gentlemanly work of exposing the griefs and shames of others.

— Janet Malcolm

That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.

— Phaedrus

“Maybe she was a wallflower. There was no shame in that. Especially not if one enjoyed being a wallflower.”

— Julia Quinn

Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in…

— Panos Cosmatos

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear…

— Malachy McCourt

The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will…

— Rumi

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame…

— Ray Liotta

To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was…

— Phil Collins

“Our fight or flight strategies are effective for survival, not for reasoning or connection. And the pain of shame is enough to…

— Anonymous

We were busy living a dream, Never noticed the glass city falling in on us, No shame, no blame, Cause the damage…

— Anonymous

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same…

— Danica McKellar

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something…

— Tara Brach

When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't quite know…

— Moderata Fonte

Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of…

— Charlie Munger

“Shame is a difficult thing. People certainly try to shame me for being fat. When I am walking down the street, men…

— Roxane Gay

I’m in a band. I don’t go to church every Sunday. I love punk rock music. Sometimes I use swear words a…

— Hayley Williams

I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate…

— Anonymous

I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows…

— Anzia Yezierska

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

— Harriet Martineau

Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.

— William H. Ginsburg

“There is no shame in being illiterate. One need only feel ashamed when one denies the opportunity to learn.”

— Virginia Aird

“It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.”

— Anonymous

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.

— Anna Held

Alcohol in families is often kept secret. There's a sense of shame.

— Geraldine James

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

— Seneca the Younger

We knew Chris Matthews had no shame. Now we also know the king of TV ghouls has no souls

— Michelle Malkin

We are constantly dealing with the embarrassment of being alive.

— Ayo Edebiri

I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.

— David Furnish

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

— Mark Twain

Pathetic isn't something I would normally call myself, but looking back I'm ashamed at how blind I really was.

— Anonymous

“Oh, yes, he’d spent a good portion of his day in self-pity. And now? Now he felt shame.”

— Cathy Maxwell

If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.

— Iyanla Vanzant

As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon.

— Jock Sturges

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

— Dorothy Allison