Shame Quotes · Page 39

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

— Brennan Manning

“The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all.”

— Oscar Wilde

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

— Johann Most

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

— James Weldon Johnson

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

— Patricia McCormick

I've always believed that makeup is a form of self-expression and there is no shame in experimenting with it.

— NikkieTutorials

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

— John Owen

“There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.”

— Julie-Anne

“Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter…

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel…

— Raymond Carver

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you're under reproach, your behavior shows it.

— Joyce Meyer

“When one person attempts to “fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

I think it was such shame that Jon Stewart wasted his moment of having the country's ear and pretending that if everybody…

— Jimmy Dore

Shame pulses through my heart from the things I've done to you. It's hard to face, but the fact remains that this…

— Avenged Sevenfold

“When you feel the thorns popping out of your face, you know you are going through the labor pains of releasing shame.
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— J.S. Wolfe

I've learned a lot since I was a new mother. My approach to struggle and shame now is to talk to yourself…

— Brene Brown

“Teach them the shame that tells the lie, “I am unforgivable,” when the truth is, “I feel unforgivable, but it was out…

— Geoffrey Wood

During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open…

— Harriet Martineau

Blood in the water I sing, and one who shed it: deadliest hunger I sing, and one who fed it- weaving the…

— Diane Duane

Our relationship with food - how, when, what and why we eat - is a direct expression of our underlying feelings, thoughts…

— Geneen Roth

“If you feel ashamed about your need for love & support, it's because you were made to feel this way as a…

— Anonymous

When all of our idols are taken away, all our securities and defense mechanisms, we find out who we really are. We’re…

— Aaron Lines

“There is a quiet transformation happening that is moving us from 'turning on each other' to 'turning toward each other.' Without question,…

— Brené Brown

“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma…

— Carrie Fisher

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

— Jonathan Swift

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

— Gilbert Baker

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

— Angelina Jolie

Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

— George W. Bush

“So she bowed her head and devoted herself to Beartown’s real traditional sports: shame and silence.”

— Fredrik Backman

I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

— Laurence Sterne

It's a shame that physical beauty often has such a negative effect on its occupant.

— Dov Davidoff

It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.

— Keren Woodward

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

— Rebecca West

I don't have any shame about the way I conducted my professional life.

— Rufus Sewell

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a…

— William Cowper

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

— Jean de La Fontaine

“It seems that Superman’s talents hold no bounds. It’s just a shame my heart does.”

— B.J. Harvey

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you have boobs. It's really that simple.

— Anonymous

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

— Johannes Kepler