Shames Quotes

26 quotes by 22 authors

What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take… — Starhawk
We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race. — Mark Twain
The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all. — Edward Abbey
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran
My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity especially on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like… — Desmond Tutu
Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our… — Herbert Hoover
Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the… — Paramahansa Yogananda
My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch… — Marilyn French
Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of… — Bronislaw Huberman
Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity. — D. H. Lawrence
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it. — Rabindranath Tagore
For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with… — Tom Clancy
Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to… — William Shakespeare
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure, the journalist stands… — Janet Malcolm
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and… — Ronald Steel
One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing… — Ayelet Waldman
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While… — William Shakespeare
Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart… — Plutarch

Who Wrote These Shames Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 26 Shames Quotes as follows: