Shame Quotes · Page 31

It's a shame when the things that are on your mind and in your heart never reach your lips.

— Anonymous

My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.

— Erich Maria Remarque

They say men have a sexual thought every 20 seconds. The other 19 are shame.

— Greg Fitzsimmons

“Shame, however, was what I felt seeping through me as though it stained my white bones black.”

— Lian Hearn

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

— Og Mandino

There is no disgrace in staying behind, not when it's the right thing.

— Nora Roberts

“She felt pride and shame wash through her. Mala, the woman who acted. To thrust herself forward into the world.”

— Marge Piercy

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

— Christiane Northrup

“And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the…

— Anonymous

I'm trying to make things better, and you have people outside who are constantly trying to make things terrible all the time.…

— Hilaria Baldwin

“Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the…

— Sharon Salzberg

“I’ve gotten pretty good at making myself feel ashamed. I can even use shame in a theoretical sense to make myself do…

— Allie Brosh

If you can steal from your competition, then they deserve to lose it. If someone steals from you, then shame on you…you…

— Don Farrell

“Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl,…

— Maureen Johnson

“The pain and shame felt are unknown to those with planned vacations. They know not of the tsunami that rescinded the homes,…

— John-Talmage Mathis

“If you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously…

— Elizabeth Cunningham

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

— Geneen Roth

I've spent most of my life living in cities where people are obsessed with looking down on people from everywhere else. You…

— Adam Duritz

“Perhaps the greatest wound a shame-based person carries is the inability to be intimate in a relationship. This inability flows directly out…

— John Bradshaw

I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that shame can be used for all sorts of good in society. An example of this is…

— Keli Goff

If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It’s a shame, but also for kids it’s so easy now for them to download it to their phone and listen to…

— Stephen Dewaele

“When those in power use shame to bully the weak into compliance, they are stealing from us. They tell us that they…

— Seth Godin

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and…

— Casey Wilson

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

— James Joyce

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

— Horace

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

— Rush Limbaugh

Pryde will have a fall;For pryde goeth before and shame commeth after.

— John Heywood

It is the crime that causes the shame, and not the punishment.

— Vikrant Parsai

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

— Plautus

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed.

— Franz Wright

It's a shame that people are resisting vetting programs that would actually just keep out those who want to do us harm.

— Kellyanne Conway

It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.

— K. Pattabhi Jois

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

— Pearl S. Buck

“Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.”

— Tim Hawken

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.

— Mark Millar

Cris Cyborg is one of the best in the world, and there is no shame in losing to her.

— Shayna Baszler

“It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago.”

— Mark Twain

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy.

— KAORI

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact…

— Jason Blum