Best Shame Lines

1581 Shame quotes by 1160 unique authors

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence… — Barack Obama
We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So… — Jim Cooper
Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds… — Mark Epstein
Goods and possessions are no gain in his eyes. He stays far from wealth and honor. Long life is no ground for joy, nor early… — Zhuangzi
Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame! — William Shakespeare
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers… — Oscar Wilde
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 - and maybe… — Jamie Lee Curtis
He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky,… — Janet Morris
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven… — Esa Saarinen
My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the… — Marlon Riggs
When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all. — William J. Clinton
There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help — Catherine Zeta-Jones
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools… — Henry Lawson
Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and… — Bernard de Mandeville
In those days, a gay man was made to feel nothing but shame about his feelings and his sexuality. I wanted my drawings to counteract… — Tom of Finland
Closeness can lead to emotions other than love. It's the ones who have been too intimate with you, lived in too close quarters, seen too… — Daniel Mendelsohn
If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment… — Stephen Fry
We live in a world of self-deprecation, and while it’s healthy to make fun of ourselves from time to time, it bothers me when I… — Lea Michele
There's an obsessive quality to it that I thought I would've grown out of by now. It's an ongoing source of shame for me. — Anne Hathaway
I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame. — Brad Paisley
It seems there's just no room left for elegance in this paper-plate, blue-jean world. And I, for one, think it's a shame. — Joan Fontaine
I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides — Kyan Douglas

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