Best shame & loss Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I should have been rewarded for helping the Indians turn around a half century of losing. It was a shame they decided to treat me that way, after all I did for them. I helped this team go from one-hundred six losses to basically one-hundred six wins and into the World Series. And what do I get for it? Nothing.”

Source: Don't Call Me Joey: The Wit and Wisdom of Albert Belle

“Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.”

Waiting Loss Ready Expression Shame Guilt Confusion Innocence

Book:The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes

“General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.”

Ifs Littles Made Care Loss Rooms Greater Shame Stores Observation Severe Jewels Caution Scrutiny Counterfeit Comprehending

Book:An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

Source: An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc

“I wonder if at this point, I mean, given [Donald's Trump] noted inability to deal with shame, humiliation and loss, and what seem like epically deep psychic wounds that he carries around, that he just wants to go and be in a place that he feels like he created.”

Ifs Want Feels Mean Seems Given Loss Deals Wonder Trump Shame Wounds Carrie Psychics Humiliation Inability

Author:Michelle Goldberg

“Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.”

Way Ends Order Loses Loss Knowing Sadness Intellectual Illusion Shame Tired Uselessness Book Of Disquiet

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.”

World Faces Natural Loss Effort Accepting Kindness Taken Dying Cost Shame Surprise Calm Granted Cheerful Innate Equanimity Candlelight

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

“The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.”

Jesus Christ Loss Crosses Died Shame Rejection Apostles Pseudo True Faith

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck to the yoke of the Father's will. There can be no other rest for heart and soul than He has created. From every burden, from every anxiety, from all dread of shame or loss, even loss of love itself, that yoke will set us free.”

Thinking Heart May Soul Father Loss Anxiety Shame Burden Vain Necks Dread Heart And Soul Weariness Yoke Love Loss

Book:The Hope of the Gospel: MacDonald's Works

Source: The Hope of the Gospel: MacDonald's Works

“When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely.”

Loss Walks Pride Shame Presumption Haughtiness

Author:Louis XI of France

“What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.”

Action Evil Loss Meditation Arms Gains Shame Prosperity Stillness Self Discipline Swallowing Coughing Gains And Losses

Author:Hakuin Ekaku

“I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.”

Felt Loss Shame Connected Awful Recognition Outcomes Endeavor Irresistible Dullness Disintegration Fatalism Mending

Book:Netherland

Source: Netherland

“No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.”

Language Loss Accepting Forever Love You Listening Dignity Shame No Fear Submissive

Author:Jack Kerouac

“Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.”

Mind Success Loss Shame Disappointment Tongue Topics Disappoint Supplies Disappointment Love Disappointment In Friends

Book:Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.”

Source: The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel

“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!”

“Loss of any sort should stir up emotion; if it doesn’t, it’s because we’ve trained ourselves to be numb. We’ve bought into the great societal lie that emotional and sensitive is bad, is shameful, is weak, and worse yet is unlike Him.”

Jesus Loss Grief Emotional Lies Shame Weakness And Strength

Book:This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

Source: This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

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