Shame Quotes · Page 41

God, give me a good humiliation every day. It's good for the soul and it's good for the ego.

— Richard Rohr

When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom

— Bible

“When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.”

— Osamu Dazai

“On the island of tears, we were subjected to every kind of humiliation,”

— Edna O'Brien

When humiliation begets heartbreak, your clothing permeates with a stench of desperation that only women can smell.

— Sean Evans

“Embarrassment has no place in scientific method!” Walter said brusquely.”

— Christa Faust

This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“Darren, everybody cries when they get stabbed. There's no shame in that.”

— Richard Smith-Jones

“Is this one blushing with shame? No, she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes…

— André Aciman

As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame…

— Tony Blair

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head…

— Arthur Golden

Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I've always predominantly listened to American music, so when I've made records, I do always think 'It's a shame this isn't being…

— Jack Savoretti

“I think the root of embarrassment is feeling totally misunderstood, wanting to explain yourself over and over but knowing that you won't…

— Alice Ozma

The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was…

— Al Capp

I guarantee you [Hillary Clinton] is smoking in humiliation over the idea that she needs to heal and that [Donald] Trump's the…

— Rush Limbaugh

“I wanted no secrets, no screens, nothing between us. Little did I know that if I relished the gust of candor that…

— André Aciman

Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something…

— Tara Brach

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Our life is so short that every time I see my children, I enjoy them as much as I can. Whenever I…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our culture has inflicted upon us and…

— David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or…

— Anonymous

I think as a gay person, there was no way in my generation to not grow up with shame and a sense…

— Ira Sachs

“Volatile expressions of anger and hostility combined with a tendency to blame others often result from feeling shame… If you are shame-prone,…

— Mary C. Lamia

All men of goodwill have this in common - that our works put us to shame.

— Hermann Hesse

It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime.

— Drake

I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

— Zadie Smith

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

— Anne Rice

People who look at Greek statues never say it's a shame because they're not complete.

— Giles Duley

“The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.”

— Nikki Gemmell

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

— Penn Jillette

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

— Marian McPartland

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The journey from shame to resentment is the shortest on there is.”

— Josh Bazell

It's a shame i can't be there myself - i like parties. Text me if you think of any good hymns!

— Jenny Downham

It's a shame that the people that judge you the most are the people of your own race.

— Sonya Parker

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

— Anonymous

The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge.

— Sri Yukteswar Giri

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

— George Bernard Shaw

I feel no shame about having paintings be as grandiose and ridiculous as possible.

— Laura Owens