Shame Quotes · Page 45

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

— William Hazlitt

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

— Mother Teresa

“Not all shame comes from wrong doing and not all hiding comes from moral failure.”

— Brent Weeks

The pressure is really what makes you work. The fear and the embarrassment.

— Esther Povitsky

Missing the last European Championship in 2016 and the World Cup 2018 has created a gap. That's a shame.

— Frank de Boer

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

— Jack Kerouac

“There's no shame in falling down! True shame is to not stand up again! Midorima Shintarō”

— Tadatoshi Fujimaki

“Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.”

— Lorraine Heath

Take pride in the shame that comes with facing the Truth, for even that shame is a might instrument for the Lord…

— Anonymous

“Shy is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something…

— Jonathan safran foer

For me, a trans writer, Knausgaard taught me about writing shame as liberation from it - a literary version of the kind…

— Torrey Peters

But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume…

— Jonathan Maberry

“The idea was that if we did such things, we would see that the worst that could happen was usually not so…

— Dr Ameisen Olivier

There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinion of men of true discernment…

— Samuel Adams

“Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The rage was a good feeling, stronger and purer than the shame that followed, the fear and the sudden urge to run…

— Dorothy Allison

“What daily life is like for “a multiple” Imagine that you have periods of “lost time.” You may find writings or drawings…

— Alison Miller

“THIS IS WHAT A MAN LOOKS LIKE. HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING; HE DOES NOT HAVE TO BE MUSCULAR;…

— Agnostic Zetetic

“His words held a mixture of embarrassment and anger, the latter caused by the former. He knew he couldn’t remember anything, and…

— Dan Wells

My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with…

— Maura Tierney

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness…

— Anonymous

“I have felt that some sort of awful shame is attached to my name and that I have somehow brought this shame…

— Imre Kertész

It's a shame you left without a word, you know. She was just beginning to trust you before that. Before you got…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I loathe my name because it is mine and also because it is not mine; it is at once too intimate and…

— Mark Fisher

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

— Samuel Johnson

“For shame, Emma! Do not mimic her. You divert me against my conscience.”

— Jane Austen

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of…

— Osamu Dazai

We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."

— Teresa Ghilarducci

I like the idea of characters without shame, who hold nothing back.

— Matthew Healy

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

— Horace

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

— Gentry Lee

“The glory and the shame of the human race is that we can get used to anything.”

— Christopher Lansdown

Humiliation sets armies marching, empires falling, breaks hearts and minds and souls.

— Janet Morris

One who is always deeply involved in what he is doing is above all embarrassment.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“We can't be good unless we know what bad is, and it's a shame we're working against time.”

— Ray Bradbury

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give…

— Marcus Aurelius

To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer

— Honore De Balzac

Regardless of if I'm a size 6 or 26 it's nobody's business and nobody has the right to body shame me or anyone else.

— Vogue Williams

“I saw my entire life a waste, a desert of shame and unspeakable sorrow, and behind me, a suicided wife!”

— Christina Stead