Shame Quotes · Page 61

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

— Gordon Lightfoot

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where shame is, there is also fear.

— John Milton

Let us consider how great a commodity of doctrine exists in books; how easily, how secretly, how safely they expose the nakedness…

— Richard de Bury

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

— Sharon Begley

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind.…

— Saint John Chrysostom

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

— Bill Cosby

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

— F. L. Lucas

“Her smile put the moon to shame.”

— Dan Rhodes

“The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”

— Milan Kundera

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

— Desmond Tutu

That's sad," said Montag, quietly,(referring to The Hound) "because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a…

— Ray Bradbury

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all…

— Hilaire Belloc

“In fact, the very thing that many high-reactives hate most about blushing— its uncontrollability— is what makes it so socially useful. “Because…

— Susan Cain

You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and what did you want with…

— Anna Godbersen

Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Alex Sharp

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will…

— Anonymous

I want to bust the stigma attached to alcoholism in our country. Women particularly are discouraged from seeking help because it's a…

— Pooja Bhatt

It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy.

— Julia Child

The motivation comes from the embarrassment of having lost and the way it sits with you.

— Ben Morgan

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

— John F. Kennedy

“We must not allow embarrassment to distract attention from elements that make us uncomfortable. Disgust and dread are the sorts of feelings…

— Lawrence Kushner

This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren't really stories at all but…

— Kim Brooks

“I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards…

— Michael Ignatieff

“Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time…

— Anne Bogart

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

— Jerry Stahl

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose…

— George Bernard Shaw

The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and…

— Edward Gibbon

“SHAME AS AN IDENTITY (THE INTERNALIZATION PROCESS) Any human emotion can become internalized. When internalized, an emotion stops functioning as an emotion…

— John Bradshaw

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

— Winston Churchill

There is no shame in wanting to age naturally or wanting to 'age gracefully' with a little help from products or procedures.

— Mel Robbins

“It is understandable how this shame came into being. The nation made the black man's color a stigma. Even linguistics and semantics…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“He tossed a helmet to me and said, “Please, no screaming this time.” “I’m making no promises Williams’.” He chuckled. “I’ll probably…

— Micalea Smeltzer

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as…

— Douglas Coupland

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Before you can kill a demon, you have to be able to say it's name. Names have power. While the word Alzheimer's…

— Terry Pratchett