Shame Quotes

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fought election has to come down to something like this.

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

These cowards have no morals. They have no shame about lying.

I live my life because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

It is a shame that so many leaders spend their time pondering their rights as leaders instead of their awesome responsibilities as leaders.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

Shame is pride's cloak.

You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

The ideal body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

Animals don't think in terms of victims and villains, or good and bad, or evil, or shame.

It's a shame to see drug dealers enter and leave the United States as if nothing in addition to those that purchase weapons and firearms.

Work is not a shame. Laziness is a shame.

Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and shame them as they deserve to be shamed.

Bite us once, shame on the dog; bite us repeatedly, shame on us for allowing it.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.

Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.

A dog has no shame. If he can do it, you can watch.

The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

If you still have to ask, shame on you

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

I like the idea of characters without shame, who hold nothing back.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

It's a shame to be called "educated" those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.

When one feels no shame in telling a deliberate lie, there is no evil, I tell you, he will not do.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

I was still searching for someone to blame for my suffering. I really wanted someone to transfer my hate to, so that I could stop hating myself.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.