Shame Quotes

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.

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

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

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

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings.

Retain your shyness and drop your shame.

I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.

Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

I was all braced for the wrath that was going to put grizzlies to shame, and this is what I get? I should infuriate you more often.

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Is it a shame that I can’t accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else’s world?

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

Saying "I feel guilty" is a mere form of words. Saying "I feel ashamed" is not.

For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.

Sometimes I think it's a shame, when I get feeling better when I'm feeling no pain.

We feel guilty for what we do. We feel shame for what we are.

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

Shame is quicksand on the path to soul.

Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

So you want to be married, oh baby, trying to put me on a chain, ain't that some shame? You must be losing your weak little mind.

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

I don't feel any 'white guilt,' because I had nothing to do with (slavery) whatsoever. I feel shame for my country that it happened and that's why I feel we need to deal with it.

There is no shame — having a dirty face — the shame comes when you keep it dirty.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

Winning is very important to me, but at the end of the day, even if I lose, as long as I know I gave it everything I had, there's no shame in that.

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture.

The White House used to be, everybody looked up at the White House and America and everything, and now I think it's like a house of shame.

Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?

How can the intensity of this shame be understood by those who have never experienced it? How can they understand the strength of the motivations produced by the desire to escape from it?

Not everyone can afford to eat well in America, which is a literal shame, but most of us can: Americans spend less than 10 percent of their income on food, less than the citizens of any other nation.

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

If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us.