Shame Quotes

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

I think our culture promotes fear and shame.

In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.

Shame has poor memory.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

It's a shame there has to be a tragedy before the best in people will finally shine.

One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's doing anything differently than what we're doing as criticizing our choices.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

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

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry.

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

Patriotism demands the ability to feel shame as much as to feel pride.

Fool witch once, shame on you. Fool witch twice, oozing sores and an eternal rash in private areas.

But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.

I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.

I place us where we are a happy couple who are madly in love, and we are kissing the way people kiss on their wedding day. With joy and relief and love. Without guilt. Without Shame.

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

There's no great shame in having your nose fixed.

There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.

Those who can ask without shame are viewing themselves in collaboration with-rather than in competition with-the world.

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

Your only shame is to have shame.

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

Nothing inhibits healing like shame.

I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.

shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

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.

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

Good therapy helps. Good friends help. Pretending that we are doing better than we are doesn't. Shame doesn't. Being heard does.

There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.