Shame Quotes

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one’s authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically.

But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.

We are not the ones who will achieve success and put this world to shame, but God will do thisthrough us.

I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?

Some people, perhaps those with more dignity and less rage gnawing at the roots of their being, are nicer as failures, For me, it was like descending a deep pit that had no bottom

The suicidal lead shame-drenched lives.

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

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.

just know that it takes a bit of courage to unlearn that shame, and to be there for others when they try to unlearn that shame, and that it all gets easier after you feel how healthy it is.

There's no shame in honest suffering, my dear.

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation - from fear, shame, guilt and judgement - was finally possible.

Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens.

Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.

The heart contracts when our bodies are overcome by shame.

Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.

It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love.

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL

Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.

It is wonderful, awesome and merrywise to see satan lose the battle to us in fear and panic and shame! Our victory is in Christ Jesus!

Happiness is a choice, To make a choice is utilizing your freewill to choose. Courage is getting out of your own way to let Happiness happen in your life in Abundance!

The insanity of shameful desires!

Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how we are build, few are the people which share their story, most cases because of shame.

Am I on your walk of shame? You did sleep with the right MacGregor, didn’t you?

A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way.

... for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

Every morning I look in the mirror and remind myself: "No one owes you sh*t!" In this way, I am never disappointed. Never placing blame.

Kill the blames and you will put your shames into blazing flames. Look for solutions, not problems!

We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing's built to last, not even shame.

To my shame, my nation and the church of the lord Jesus Christ in my continent is covered head to toe in this ignorance.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.

Sometimes while waiting for God's promises to come to pass, we messed up things and go into so many troubles, but God’s mercy has never failed in bringing us out of them all.

We frequently applaud failure in theory, but the dirty little secret is that it makes all of us feel at least a little ashamed.

As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely.

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.

Far too often we allow the hurtful words of others to define us. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

Never be ashamed of who you are. True shame always belongs to the person that enjoys being ashamed of who you are.

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

It's a pity. I don't know who he is to you... But you are disgusting. To claim you fight for his honor, when all you do is bring shame to his name.

Delight in your sensuality, in the dance of your desires. Don't be ashamed of it.

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.

The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.

Those who were raised in poverty and have been successful to overcome the shame of it, understands the hardship of those who are left behind.