Shame Quotes · Page 30

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

— Brad Pitt

It's a shame - we've got so many hilarious women, and think there's a certain repression there.

— Emily Atack

“Beauty if you keep that up, I am goin' to embarrass myself like a schoolboy.”

— Alex Morgan

Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.

— Roy H. Williams

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

— Francine Pascal

I have to say, I loved working on 'Men of a Certain Age.' It was a real shame when that show got…

— Sarah Clarke

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

— Adam Duritz

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. Its one of the deepest pains of being human.

— Pierce Brosnan

Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent…

— Daisaku Ikeda

Courageous? Courageous would have been admitting weakness and leaving Dauntless, no matter what shame accompanied it. Pride is what killed Al, and…

— Veronica Roth

“When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a…

— Jodi Picoult

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have…

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It…

— Barack Obama

I don't know why they call it a Walk of Shame. You just had sex last night and now everyone knows it.…

— Anonymous

With 'Mouthful of Shame,' all of my fans or the majority of them said it's the best thing you've ever done and…

— Jim Norton

A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me.…

— Margaret Atwood

“But all of my anger toward Scott and embarrassment at my own behavior were overshadowed by the conversation with Kaidan. Just thinking…

— Wendy Higgins

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to…

— Jack Antonoff

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

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most…

— Henry Mayhew

When we evaluate the rightness or wrongness of actions or behavior, we need to ask ourselves if that behavior will edify—build up—ourselves…

— Myles Munroe

“I was a prisoner inside my own body. I felt desperate, angry, stupid, confused, ashamed, hopeless and absolutely alone... and that this…

— Carl Sutton

Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can…

— Henri Nouwen

“Everybody has thoughts that shame them. You can’t control them coming in. But you don’t have to let them all out.”

— Elizabeth Berg

“A more ancient precedent of ransom, that we may not always be tormented by our shame.”

— Gregory Maguire

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

— Dan Savage

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you.

— Anonymous

You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.

— Euripides

Whom do you call bad?--Those who always want to induce shame.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

— Charles Simmons

“It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.”

— Aleksis Kivi

Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.

— Kathy Acker

“An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review”

— Robert Uttaro

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

— Ayn Rand

“His hair was red, and his eyes were a color blue that put the ocean to shame.”

— Maya Bode

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

— Kevin Kline

“There is no shame in it, becoming what your nature says you must be.”

— Craig Johnson