Best shame & kind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Into the woods, my Master went, Clean forspent, forspent, Into the woods my Master came, Forspent with love and shame. But the olives they were not blind to Him, The little gray leaves were kind to Him: The thorn-tree had a mind to Him, When into the woods He came.”

Mind Kind Littles Christ Tree Masters Shame Blind Clean Woods Gray Olives

Book:Poems of Sidney Lanier

Source: Poems of Sidney Lanier

“The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.”

Kind Poverty Worst Shame Ashamed Frugality

Author:Livy

“Shame is the proper reaction when one has purposefully violated the accepted behavior of society. Inflicting it is etiquette's response when its rules are disobeyed. The law has all kinds of nasty ways of retaliating when it is disregarded, but etiquette has only a sense of social shame to deter people from treating others in ways they know are wrong. So naturally Miss Manners wants to maintain the sense of shame. Some forms of discomfort are fully justified, and the person who feels shame ought to be dealing with removing its causes rather than seeking to relieve the symptoms.”

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“Shameless actually good since it gives a kind of freedom. We consider the old, functionless shame destructive. Today, if you have a strong sense of shame you also have a strong desire to overcome it. And that's when you can write.”

Ifs Giving Writing Kind Today Desire Strong Overcoming Shame Destructive Shameless Strong Desire

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.”

Source: How Could You Do That?!: Abdication of Character, Courage, Consci

“I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, "God, they don't paint behind the sets." It's a bit of a shame, really - "Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood." I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.”

Thinking Kind Real Kids Remember Bits Sides Acting Behinds Wall Shame Paint Disappointed Thinking God

Author:Andy Serkis

“Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.”

Men Kind Doe Example Shame Ill Deeds Locked Imitation Contagious Locked Up Spawn Emulation

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.”

Source: War and Other Essays

“The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. We all feel instinctively, that our children's success reflect glory upon ourselves, while their failures make us feel shame. Unfortunately, the successes which cause us to swell with pride are often of an undesirable kind.... Neither happiness nor virtue, but worldly success, is what the average father desires for his children.”

Want Feels Kind Children Desire Father Causes Virtue Pride Glory Shame Our Children Fundamentals Average Credit Worldly Defects Undesirable

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.”

Kind Persons Art Pain Happened Terrible Shame Complexes Terror Brilliant Curious Works Of Art Great Work Terrible Things

Author:John Cusack

“Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it.”

Kind Dies House Fire Painting Late Approach Shame Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery

Author:Dana Gould

“My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.”

Thinking World Kind Different Country Would Be Influence Rocks Unique Advantage India Shame Jazz China Pops Classical Music Pop Music Rock Music Pretension Different Countries World Music

Author:Rokia Traore

“Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.”

Thinking Want Wells Kind Class Issues Nice Imagine Color Treats Harder Shame Connected Servant Paris Hotel Staying Mexico Mexican Mexican American

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I think in its own small way, it did push people to be more accepting of different kinds of music. It definitely made music more egalitarian in terms of, it took away the shame of the goofy bands that you liked.”

People Thinking Way Kind Made Different Term Accepting Band Shame Different Kinds Goofy Different Kinds Of Music

Author:Jancee Dunn

“The thing we want for all our kids is that they be connected with a learning community and that they have strong social and familial relationships. If we can do whatever we can do to create that and to reduce bullying and to reduce the kind of pain and shame so many kids feel for so many reasons, that stuff is going to reduce drug addiction.”

Ifs Want Feels Kind Reason Kids Pain Strong Social Stuff Can Do Community Drug Shame Addiction Connected Bullying Drug Addiction Drug Addict

Author:Maia Szalavitz

“To me, the biggest lesson I`ve learned up till now with two weeks to go before the election, and the thing I have to keep, sort of, taking myself back to kind of parse, is just how powerful a personality can be when it is as not worried about norms or shame as a normal person.”

Kind Persons Two Powerful Week Personality Lessons Normal Shame Election Worried I've Learned Norm Two Weeks

Author:Chris Hayes

“There's a real careful line you have to walk there because your first job [therapist] is to create safety for the client to feel safe enough to turn their vision in towards themselves and their experience in the moment and to reveal things that usually carry a lot of shame or that kind of stuff around.”

Feels Firsts Kind Real Enough Moments Jobs Turns Stuff Lines Walks Vision Safe Shame Safety Careful Clients Therapists

Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.”

Writing Trying Kind Process Shame Writing Process

Author:Morgan Parker

“As for uniqueness, this is virtually nonexistent! And it's a shame that people think they're unique because they have a face ring, retro clothing, colorful hair, drive a certain kind of automobile or listen to some obscure musician.”

People Thinking Kind Faces Certain Hair Musician Unique Shame Rings Clothings Uniqueness Obscure Automobile Colorful Retro

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“I always kind of divided the gay guys I met up into two groups when I first started coming out. There were the guys who thought there was something fundamentally wrong with them and hated themselves and were so burdened with shame and internalized homophobia. It just really paralyzed and shredded them. And then there were guys like me who thought, "I'm fine, everybody else is crazy. My church is sick and the family's crazy, but me? I'm fine."”

Kind Guy Church Crazy Gay Sick Shame Hated Homophobia

Author:Dan Savage

“People grow up learning to be silent about their sexuality, so where are they going to learn to talk about it when they are in a relationship? Shame, guilt, ignorance, reservation, prudishness, all kinds of different cultural systems and social stereotypes shroud sexuality in secrecy and in silence. And there's the romantic notion. "If I say in the beginning, that I am missing something, you are instantly going to think that means you are not enough."”

People Thinking Kind Mean Different Enough Silence Growing Up Missing Ignorance Shame Guilt Silent Sexuality All Kinds Stereotype Secrecy

Author:Esther Perel

“I think China is laughing about the results of the presidential elections. China, Russia, they all laugh about it. They see how dramatic U.S. has to be put this kind of shame on its own - cannot handle the situation. Or show such a difficulty with this liberal ideas. Men or women created equal. And to defend those very essential ideas.”

Thinking Men Kind Situation Laughing Equal Difficulty Shame Election Presidential Dramatic Presidential Election

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The problem is when you become so well known that everyone is watching you and you don't have an opportunity to observe. It's something that I don't want to lose. I like being unnoticed when I don't feel like being noticed. It's not like I crave attention all the time. Something that I've always loved and appreciated is the chance to see something about someone's character, observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I'm studying it. I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.”

Kind Character Feelings Problem Opportunity Chance Ability Attention Study Shame Curiosity Intense Well Known Appreciated Unnoticed

Author:Adrien Brody

“So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having. Where I would usually backspace, I stop and say, "You know what? This is important, that I say how I feel and don't sugarcoat it, and don't avoid it." In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.”

Writing Trying Kind Important Shame Writing Process

Author:Morgan Parker

“Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.”

Kind Use Courses Shame Cooking Eggs Cheese Hippie Spirals

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.”

Men Kind Littles Hours Brother Shame Be Kind Hints Chuckles

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“You know, it's kind of a shame in a way but the more seasoned directors a lot of times have more difficult getting a job than first time guys. New kid on the block kind of thing.”

Knows Way Firsts Kind Kids Jobs Guy Difficult Directors First Time Shame Block

Author:Jeff Bridges

“It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind. Instead we admire those who show our country disrespect and betray its people.”

People Knows Heart Kind Littles Country Shows Shame Admire Our Country Betray Disrespect

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Made Happens Culture Shame Made It Guarantees

Author:David Byrne

“Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you can call it fiction 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions, dear 'Cause here we are, here we are Although you were biased, I love your advice Your comebacks they're quick and probably Have to do with your insecurities There's no shame in being crazy depending on how you take these Words they're paraphrasing this relationship we're staging And it's a beautiful mess, yes, it is It's like we're picking up trash in dresses”

“I wouldn’t want you to get in the shower and then pass out or some such. How about if I help you get out of your clothes? I’m an expert in platonic undressings.” He gave me that wicked smile. “Give it a rest. I’m not going to strip naked in front of you, and I’d rather pee in private.” “Half the injuries in a home happen in the bathroom. What kind of friend would I be to let you face that kind of danger alone? I mean, sure, you walked out of death, but this is a shower.” “Shame. Get out of my bathroom.”

Source: Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel

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

Giving Kind Book Hands Kids Shame Superpower

Author:Cecil Castellucci

“There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.”

Knows Feels Kind Persons Soul Pain Form Certain Mistake Fire One Day Advantage Shame Guilt Rage Horrible Strongest Trust Me Personal Experiences Splitting

Author:Adam Gidwitz

“And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.”

Kind Real Crazy Shame Defense Insanity Temporary Council Temporary Insanity

Book:Prey

Source: Prey

“I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”

Kind Effects Shame Lifetime Hiding Erotic Cumulative

Book:Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Source: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present." "Aw," I drawled. "A whopping thirteen cents. You're too kind, Jonah. Why, you'd put Ebezener Scrooge to shame with your bighearted generosity.”

Kind Said Voice Shame Generosity Cents Thirteen Gin Jonah Christmas Present Scrooge

Author:Jennifer Estep

“When you visit countries that don't nurture these kinds of ambitions, you can feel th absence of hope...people are reduced to worrying only about that day's shelter or the next day's meal. It's a shame, even a tragedy, how many people do not get to think about the future. Technology coupled with wise leadership not only solves these problems but enables dreams of tomorow.”

People Thinking Feels Kind Country Problem Dream Next Technology Worry Wise Ambition Tragedy Shame Solve Absence Meals Shelter Nurture Next Day

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night." "How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.”

Ifs Giving Kind Said Night Dies Chance Give Me Shame Odds

Book:The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal

Source: The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal

“To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things are going.”

Kind Ideas Shame Reviews

Author:Nick Cave

“Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

“If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.”

Ifs Feels Kind Shame Guilt Sentiments Sentimental

Book:Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive

Source: Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive

“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.”

Kind Doe Feelings Able Brain Easier Drug Shame Yeah Horrible

Author:Aimee Mann

“Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.”

Feels Firsts Kind Mean Made Stills Used Shame Excitement Awe Freak Adore My Best Friend Mixtures Terrific

Author:Diane Arbus

“With his continual doctrine [Bishop Hooper] adjoined due and discreet correction, not so much severe to any as to them which for abundance of riches and wealthy state thought they might do what they listed. And doubtless he spared no kind of people, but was indifferent to all men, as well rich as poor, to the great shame of no small number of men nowadays. Whereas many we see so addicted to the pleasing of great and rich men, that in the meantime they have no regard to the meaner sort of poor people, whom Christ hath bought as dearly as the other.”

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Author:John Foxe

“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”

Ifs Kind Reason Would Be Certain Dies Generations Ready Pride Bears Pure Shame Sacred Guilt Affair Innocent Carrie Pregnancy Disgrace Ready To Die Cancellation Without A Trace

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe we will end up being kind. If we shame ourselves, we believe we end up loving ourselves. It has never been true, not for a moment, that shame leads to love. Only love leads to love.”

“I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for having suffered this horrid trade to be carried on under their authority. We are all guilty—we ought all to plead guilty, and not to exculpate ourselves by throwing the blame on others; and I therefore deprecate every kind of reflection against the various descriptions of people who are more immediately involved in this wretched business.”

People Kind Mean Whole Common Ought Involved Authority Reflection Shame Blame Trade Various Guilty Britain Description Throwing Parliament Wretched Great Britain

Author:William Wilberforce

“Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing it just for work, you should try and trick it up a bit.”

Ifs Should Trying Kind Bits Business Shame Tricks Suits

Author:Daniel Craig

“If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.”

Ifs Knows Kind My Own Habit Shame Cooks Girlfriend Therapeutic

Author:Michael Fassbender

“I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.”

Mind Kind Ends Philosophy Light Shame Guilt Tunnels

Author:Ani DiFranco

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