Shame Quotes

I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.

It's horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

Love, to her ear, was but a name, Combin'd with vanity and shame; Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all Bounded within the cloister wall.

You've got to vote for someone. It's a shame, but it's got to be done.

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.

Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!

Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!

Let life be short, else shame will be too long.

Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will.

For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.

I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

Never shame to hear what you have nobly done

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

Sugar cane reach up to GodAnd every baby cryingShame the blanket of my nightAnd all my days are dying

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

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

O shame! Where is they blush?

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.

I watched you undress. Shame on you!

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

Don't underestimate the power of a guilty mind. Never underestimate self-shame and self-destruction.

There is no shame in feeling bad about having to kill. The shame comes when you no longer care.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful thingsand your tongue were not concocting some evil to sayshame would not hold down your eyesbut rather you would speak about what is just

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.

True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.

Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.

When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.

You must first feel sorry for your sins, to seek the free gift of grace of salvation.

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.

I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.