Shame Quotes · Page 84

The best antidote for loneliness, hopelessness, and fear is vulnerability: sharing your secrets and talking about what shames you, what you fear.

— Jewel

I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

With publicity comes humiliation.

— Tama Janowitz

“He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for…

— Katherine Anne Porter

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me…

— Ruby Wax

No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for…

— Sheri Holman

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make…

— L. E. Maxwell

Let the words of a virgin, though in a good cause, and to as good purpose, be neither violent, many, nor first,…

— Francis Quarles

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

— Jodi Picoult

I can't help what people write or think. If somebody thinks I'm a serious archivist, they're wrong. That's been a problem. It's…

— Ry Cooder

So you were born, and that was a good day. Some day you'll die, and that is a shame. But somewhere in…

— Tomas Kalnoky

Whether Osama bin Laden is doing it cynically and has no interest in these matters, or whether he's doing it out of…

— Robert Fisk

I had wanted to act since I was a kid, but I had a lot of shame attached to it. I didn't…

— Mickey Sumner

I think it's a disgrace that we're allowing extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

— Andrew Scheer

“Laughing at yourself turns shame into play, mistakes into stories, and awkwardness into authenticity.”

— Pamela Cox

“Life was that — humiliation, renunciation.”

— Virginia Woolf

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two,…

— Jon Stewart

There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I don't say, 'Do…

— Chris Lowe

I think it's important to encourage young people to tell their own stories and to speak openly about their own experiences with…

— Michelle Alexander

There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

— Truman Capote

The most awkward place to run into a homeless person is on your way to a Coinstar.

— Anonymous

“The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a…

— Mark Manson

I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

— William J. Clinton

“They know their crime," she said. "They know their shame.”

— Alethea Kontis

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

— Bill Konigsberg

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.…

— Danzy Senna

As never before, he understood the vitality of tradition, the dignity of the worship of what had existed before one's own self…

— Nancy Holder

I think that there's always room for humour in music. It's something that always takes itself so seriously, which I think is…

— Kate Bush

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

— B. B. King

“Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!”

— Gary F. Patton

It's a shame that creativity and sloth look exactly the same.

— Louise Penny

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing,…

— Charles Dickens

I never want to shame anyone. I love going to the gym, and I feel proud and fit. That, for me, is…

— Iskra Lawrence

“This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.”

— Ian Rankin

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without…

— J. Irwin Miller

Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down…

— Libba Bray