Best regret & shame Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.”

Source: Life After God

“The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is, a result of a nature not to give the slightest inquietude to the most timid imagination; and which can cause no regrets but to the very person who, through a sentiment of shame and pity, has refused to prolong a life begun under the auspices of misery.”

Giving Persons Causes Imagination Results Existence Knowing Regret Shame Misery Pity Sentiments Infant No Regrets Offence

Book:Theory of Legislation

Source: Theory of Legislation

“The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.”

Source: Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

“...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.”

Years Littles Done Might Moving Sides Numbers Regret Industry Behavior Standards Shame Moved Firm Ethical Decline Nasty Modest Slides Unethical

Author:Jeremy Grantham

“Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you’ll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you’d get by succeeding. Ironic, isn’t it?”

Regret Succeed Connections Shame Genuine Ironic Harvest Reap Trust Respect

Author:Martha Beck

“A false identity is any lie that contradicts our God-given identities through Scripture. These false identities can be created by ourselves because of sin in our lives, choices made, or wrong turns taken and the regret, guilt, and shame that follows. Other false identities are handed to us by outside sources, maybe a damaging word spoken to us by someone or a childhood of abuse. However, not all false identities are negative on the surface, such as successful, attractive, wealthy, athletic, or talented. But even those identities can become false when we place too much of our weight on them.”

Lying Choices Sin Successful Taken Childhood Identity Regret Negative Abuse Shame Guilt Scripture Attractive Wealthy Athletic Life Choices Wrong Turn

Author:Matthew West

“Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?”

Heart Reason Joy Suffering Struggle Doors Regret My Heart Shame Accepted Sand Adore Captured Frantic

Author:George Sand

“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.”

Done Remember Lying Left Dark Regret Proud Shadow Shame Tables Guilt Credit Storm Naked Dust Justify Thick Corpses Undone Forgetfulness Prosecutor Jackals Anubis

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.”

Ifs Men Sometimes Would Be Simple Secret Quality Regret Hero Worship Standards Shame Envy Satisfied Admire Hero Worship Great Qualities

Author:Mark Twain

“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)”

Looks Eye Mother Father Brother Regret Sick Died Shame My Sister Despise Mother Died Father And Brother Look Me In The Eye

Book:Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

Source: Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel

“Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.”

Humans Self Pain Suffering Emotion Regret Shame Pity Dread Humiliation Self Pity Human Emotions

Author:Michael Pollan

“In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.”

Has Beens Ends States Done Simple Deals Pay Mines Regret Fit All Things Shame Here I Am Pay The Price

Book:Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

“Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.”

Men Humans Happens Human Beings Destiny Regret Shame Aging Vulnerability Getting Old Getting Older Apprehension

Author:Susan Sontag

“An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.”

Moments Character Joy Creation Emotional Regret Pride Scene Shame Profound Overwhelming Exploring Intuitive Imports

Author:David Corbett

“The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

Ifs Want Needs Desire Grief Sadness Regret Broken Higher Hatred Shame Calm Rage No Fear Fury No Regrets Hold Me No Anger Live Without Fear

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

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