Shame Quotes

In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace.

It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness, shame: the roots of violence.

I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

No matter what feeling comes up - numbness, irritability, shame - if I let it arise and play itself through, I naturally open into wakefulness and care.

Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen'rous shame, Th' unconquerable mind, and freedom's holy flame.

I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

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

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.

I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.

Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.

It’s a shame...you just don’t see young people doing anything outside these days.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

If Nietzsche is correct, that to shame a man is to kill him, then any honest attempt at autobiography will be an act of self-destruction.

What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?

When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.

There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

O shame, where is thy blush?

When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

Past all shame, so past all truth.

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.