Shame Quotes · Page 47

Oh, a chance to watch you flee your own village, drenched in shame. I love it.

— KE-PA

I have a lot of shame, and until I got sober at 42 years of age, I had never voted. I was…

— Leslie Jordan

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

— Aristotle

Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

— Wayne Dyer

Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.

— Seth MacFarlane

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

— Len Goodman

Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

— Mason Cooley

The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassment.

— Simon Jenkins

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

— William Saroyan

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that…

— Johnny Otis

If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of…

— Confucius

I'll work at the donut shop for six months again, I don't really have any shame about that. I liked working at…

— Chappell Roan

We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst…

— Jeaniene Frost

“We have these shames we keep to ourselves because to show ourselves as we are, no more and no less, would be…

— Roxane Gay

For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless,…

— Devon Monk

You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my…

— Marjane Satrapi

I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn…

— William Morris

“Complex PTSD consists of of six symptom clusters, which also have been described in terms of dissociation of personality. Of course, people…

— Suzette Boon

Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Shame, from their perspective, would be the proper response to promises of or demands for fidelity. A vow of fidelity would be…

— Christopher Ryan

Poseidon raised his eyebrows as they shook hands. “Blowfish, did you say?” "Ah, no. Blofis, actually.” "Oh, I see,” Poseidon said. “A…

— Rick Riordan

People help way more than we expect, way more than makes sense. But when you talk to people called heroes, they often…

— Amanda Ripley

“Your eyelashes make mine want to commit suicide from shame.”

— Kasie West

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

— William Gifford

“In this moment the absence of shame is shaped like Alex Kosta and I don't want to let go of this feeling.”

— Trish Doller

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

— Rebecca St. James

“I couldn't stand to be a fool a second time,' Hattie said. 'I couldn't stand it.”

— Ayana Mathis

“The true answer held my chest like an unwanted hand’s sudden touch, uncomfortable and unfeeling.”

— Aspen Matis

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.

— Thom Yorke

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.

— Kate Bornstein

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

— Constance Wu

Its a shame that the very people who you protect are the first ones to turn there backs on you.

— Autumn Kohler

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

— John Fowles

“Blaming our actions rather than our character allows us to feel guilt instead of shame.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

— Paul Rudd

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

— George Sand

The embarrassment after the anger is biggest humiliation a person can experience.

— Marilyn Monroe