Shame Quotes · Page 95

I don't understand the art of compromise, and it's a shame the politicians don't understand that as well, you know, we might…

— John Lydon

Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems…

— Mike Mills

I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is…

— Warsan Shire

My household, as I was growing up, was a house of hidden shame.

— Mariette Hartley

I don't know if that's the best story for BoJack, long-term. I do love the world, and I love playing around in…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.

— Sister Souljah

The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity…

— Andre Comte-Sponville

To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

— Lord Chesterfield

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

— Pierre Corneille

Ke$ha IS the walk of shame.

— Natasha Leggero

It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.

— James Weldon Johnson

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

You cannot simply read the Quran,not if you take it seriously.You either have surrendered to it already or you fight it. It…

— Jeffrey Lang

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that…

— Lance Armstrong

“It’s an embarrassing fact that we are more afraid of embarrassment than a host of other discomforts, but it isn’t less true…

— Susan Neiman

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

— Plautus

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

— Albert Camus

Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a…

— Antoine Fuqua

When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of…

— Naomi Ragen

There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

People of the cross? A symbol of shame has become our confidence.

— Stephen Nichols

Don't talk with out knowing; it saves you the embarrassment.

— Anonymous

“I think one cannot be left alive among so many deaths without feeling unendurable shame.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn…

— Roger Zelazny

You have such a pretty face, it's a shame you're such a bitch.

— Anonymous

One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it…

— Bill Maher

I can see her clearly, standing on the rock beside Peg Gratton, unflinching before Eaton and the rest of the race committee.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip…

— Charlie Peacock

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

— Anonymous

There is this really tight relationship between horror and shame. And shame is in all of my books as the biggest monster.…

— Leigh Bardugo

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

— Marcus Brigstocke

Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame. When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under…

— Sidney Lanier

“awkwardness and shame. Still, I turned to food”

— Judith Newton

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail

— Henry Ford

“Shame isn't bad, her voice from somewhere else insists. Nor the humility that is its gift.”

— William Trevor

Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these…

— Lancelot Andrewes

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

— Virginia Aird

Humility is rewarded with honor, but disgrace follows the proud around.

— Ore Abayomi