I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“To not realize one's dreams is a shame; to not reach for them is a tragedy” — Jason Alan Copy Share Image
When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again,… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of… — William J Federer Copy Share Image
Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's no shame in speaking about mental illness. It's a very common problem in today's society, no matter if you're playing sports… — Robin Soderling Copy Share Image
It will make a weak man mighty. it will make a mighty man fall. It will fill your heart and hands or… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
To-morrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next; each its own trial,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What would happen if people practiced openness and honesty? If people talked about their real challenges without shame or fear of rejection?… — Deborah Reber Copy Share Image
“But it was a terrible humiliation. The worst things that people do to us always make us feel ashamed. The worst things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way… — Lal Bahadur Shastri Copy Share Image
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“She is not for you. She is a wild one--wild, without shame. This is not a bride for a rabbi".” — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame. — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
“At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
For the most part, it was never assumed that I was gay, and I've had people be sort of surprised that I… — Antoni Porowski Copy Share Image
Low-budget movies is fine for me, I have no qualms about it, but when you want to do something - build a… — Ti West Copy Share Image
You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
“In the night I come to you and it seems a shame to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a… — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
How dare you refer to my beautiful children as 'synthetic'. And shame on you for wagging your judgemental little fingers at IVF… — Elton John Copy Share Image