Shame Quotes

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.

Maybe a deal was possible earlier. And maybe, in retrospect, looking back, you could say this was a moment you could have jumped on. If so, shame on us. I tend to think not.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us."

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Were Guilt is, Rage and Courage doth abound.

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

Guilt is about something you do. Shame is about who you are.

One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way.

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.

Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.

A shame really, because putting the right book in the right kid’s hands is kind of like giving that kid superpowers.

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That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.

Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

I don't have any shame.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

Take heart, and do not let disappointment or shame stop you from moving forward. The true outcome of life is only apparent at the very end.

Some things you can fix, and some things you can't. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things you can.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.

The Plutocracy's insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

That's a shame. I'm sure somebody, somewhere, cares.

For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless, and heartless Zay.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)