Best shame & reason Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.”

Men Should Looks Reason Shame Forty Dozen

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.”

Men Reason Age Individual Nations Degrees Prejudice Shame Trade Suspects Cherish Casting

Author:Edmund Burke

“Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.”

Want Believe Reason Pain Hurt Situation Experience Anger Shame Angry Guilt Upset Affected Negativity Holding On Glue

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“For some reason, I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame.”

Reason Born Shame Embarrassment

Author:Jason Segel

“Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.”

Reason Virtue Shame Fortitude Chastity Owing Diffidence

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Lying is a false significance of speech, with a will to deceive, which cannot be cured but by shame and reason; it is a monstrous and wicked evil, that filthily depraved and defileth the tongue of man.”

Men Reason Lying Evil Speech Shame Tongue Wicked Significance Deceiving Monstrous Depraved

Author:Jon Jones

“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

“Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.”

People Want Reason Pain Young Courses Pleasure Rocks Return Direct Shame Sufficient Quests Splits Sail Vessel Crowded Voyages Steers

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.”

Mean Soul Self Reason Fall Evil Objects Gains Destruction Shame Sake Seeking Ruins Fallen Motive No Reason Wickedness Foul Shameful Self Destruction Depraved Firmament

Book:The Confessions

Source: The Confessions

“There is no reason to feel any shame in hiring someone to pick stocks or mutual funds for you. But there's one responsibility that you must never delegate. You, and no one but you, must investigate whether an adviser is trustworthy and charges reasonable fees.”

Feels Reason Responsibility Picks Shame Investing Reasonable No Reason Fund Mutual Hiring Trustworthy Fees Adviser Delegates Mutual Fund

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane.”

Humans Reason Respect Shame Divinity Humane

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“I was really not a good student, and I felt that shame every day. That's one of the reasons I started smoking pot and drinking daily.”

Reason Felt Students Shame Drinking Smoking Pot Good Students Smoking Pot

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“One of the reasons I still do stand-up is because it was so hard in the beginning that I feel like it would be such a shame not to redeem it that it's all fun.”

Feels Stills Hard Reason Would Be Fun Shame

Author:Bill Maher

“We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elects a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it's the fictition of duct tape or fictition of orange alerts we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Mr. Bush, shame on you. And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.”

Men War Reason President Results Shame Election Tape Pope Orange Chicks Us President Duct Tape Dixie Shame On You Election Results Dixie Chicks

Author:Michael Moore

“What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.”

“When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually comprehend the human tragedy of these events is overwhelming. We see so many images, but there's always the sense, for Americans, that it's not in our backyard. That's another reason why the war in Bosnia was so fascinating; because it really was in Europe's backyard. It was in Europe. And they didn't do anything about it for years. It took the Americans to end that war, really. That's a shame.”

People Years Humans War Ends Reason Dying Car Events Goes On Europe Bases Tragedy Shame Iraq Reason Why Fascinating Overwhelming Brushes Bombing Backyards Bosnia People Dying

Author:Richard Shepard

“'Brokeback Mountain' is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together is because being gay is a stigmatized thing. It would be interesting to have the same movie in which the two guys weren't in the closet and there was no shame about them being gay and they couldn't be together for other reasons. I still feel like we're a long way from that happening.”

People Way Feels Long Stills Two Reason Stories Would Be Together Guy Interesting Gay Mountain Happenings Shame Love Story Closets Long Way Being Gay Sad Love Two Guys Brokeback Mountain

Author:Wesley Morris

“Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.”

Reason Imagination Wise Fool Glory Shame Wretched

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.”

Reason Humanity Church Shame Encounters Troops Incapable Eastern Monk Fanatics Barbarians Swarms

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“FAQ regarding my book were not about my use of commas or how the images went berserk, but about the political situation in Bosnia, about guilt and shame, about victims and perpetrators, about reasons, arguments and beliefs that led to the conflict in the first place, etc. All of this needed and still needs answering and ongoing discussions, but I mostly felt overwhelmed and unqualified to articulate anything worth more than personal experiences of the siege, of fear and refuge - all the things which I wrote about anyway.”

“When they've shut down, you get more nervous. They react to that, and it's just this hideous shame spiral. Although sometimes that can be some good train-wreck TV. That's another reason it's definitely difficult - when you are just not connecting, and it's there for the world to see.”

World Sometimes Reason Difficult Tvs Shame Train Nervous Connecting Wrecks Hideous Spirals Train Wrecks

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

“As a singer, I've always said, "Yes, I smoke weed," when I'm asked. Of course I say yes, because why wouldn't I smoke weed? There are many reasons not to, though not that many compared to the reasons to do it. I've always been open about it ... but people go, "Hippie! No, not listening to you," and I think that's a bloody shame.”

People Thinking Reason Listening Shame Weed Bloody Hippie

Author:Joss Stone

“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

“A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.”

Ifs Men Feels Should Real Reason Science Evolution Shame Ashamed No Reason Ancestor Grandfather Rhetoric Obscure Acquaintance Be A Man Apes Plunge Religious Prejudice

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?”

Men Writing Reason Shame

Book:Essays Critical and Clinical

Source: Essays Critical and Clinical

“Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.”

Mind Soul Reason Done Action Pain Behinds Smart Conscious Shame Flesh Wounds Confusion Wicked Repentance Perpetual Torment Remorse Ulcers

Author:Plutarch

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.”

Giving Wells Reason Past Night Grows Causes Mistake Middle Give Me Shame Painful Optimistic Encounters Rejoice Woe Middle Of The Night

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces of kings and the humble cabins of shepherds; and when it takes entire possession of a heart, the first thing it does is to banish fear and shame from it.”

Firsts Heart Doe Reason Love Is Kings Shame Possession Humble Consideration Restraint Palaces Lofty Shepherds Cabins

Book:The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: The history of Don Quixote de la Mancha

“Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing attitudes, these people-the pride and joy of their parents-should have had a strong and stable sense of self-assurance. But the case is exactly the opposite... Whenever they suddenly get the feeling they have failed to live up to some ideal image or have not measured up to some standard, then they are plagued by anxiety or deep feelings of guilt and shame. What are the reasons for such disturbances in these competent, accomplished people?”

“We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts, but beauty also lulls. Early associations endear, but they also confuse. Through that beautiful solemnity, the transporting or horrifying realities of which the Book tells may come to us blunted and disarmed, and we may only sigh with tranquil veneration when we ought to be burning with shame, or struck dumb with terror, or carried out of ourselves by ravishing hopes and adorations.”

Ifs May Book Sometimes Reason Reality Beautiful Ought Bible Shame Terror Versions Burning Dumb Get Away Association Biblical Sigh Solemn Adoration Tranquil Veneration Lulls Solemnity

Author:C. S. Lewis

“A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.”

Children Reason Wealth Wife Trouble Sorrow Shame Agents Companion Distraction Modesty Woe Spoil Neighbour Civility Beggar Drunkenness Drunkards Annoyance Benefactors Taverns Brewers

Author:Thomas Adams

“When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, and lay it on as plainly as we can speak, and tell them of their sin, and shame, and misery: and we expect, not only that they should bear all patiently, but take all thankfully, and we have good reasons for all this; and most that I deal with do take it patiently... But if we speak to a godly minister against his errors or any sin... if it be not more an applause than a reprehension, they take it as an injury almost insufferable.”

Ifs Men Should Reason Speak Sin Deals Conditions Bears Shame Lays Misery Errors Ignorant Ministers Injury Godly Disgrace Applause Drunkards Insufferable

Author:Richard Baxter

“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.”

“Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.”

Source: The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life

“How ironic for peacemaking efforts to discover that hatred is stronger for many than love; that the longing to achieve power through military victories makes so many men lose their reason, forget all shame, and betray history.”

Men Reason Loses Forget Effort Achieve Military Victory Hatred Stronger Shame Longing Ironic Betray Peacemaking

Author:Oscar Arias

“There's no blame placed at Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital for, as far as I can see, absolutely no reason . . . She feels no shame about the death of this woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering.”

Feels I Can Reason Shame Blame British Arrogance No Reason Hospitals Royal Outrageous Kate Staggering

Author:Steven Morrissey

“What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.”

Men World Should War Reason Beautiful Given Kindness Creatures Shame Civil War Mars Loving Kindness Beautiful World

Book:Recollections and Letters

Source: Recollections and Letters

“Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.”

Soul Reason Christ Born Birth Shame Remains Flesh Adam Born Again Regeneration Conjunctions

Book:The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)

“I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change.”

People Way Want Feels Years Reason Pain Young Certain Church Teaching Huge Broken Calling Shame Communicate God Love Isolation Abandon God Loves Me

Author:Vicky Beeching

“I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.”

Writing Reason Shame Topics Qualms African Women

Author:Danai Gurira

“Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.”

Knows Feels Two Reason Stories Poor Kings Pressure Shame Blame Killing British Arrogance Australia No Reason Hospitals Nurse Royal Kate Djs Staggering Saying Nothing

Author:Steven Morrissey

“A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.”

Men Feels Different Reason Past Sin Simple Broken Shame Confession Past Wrongs

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

Life Reason Discipline Fame Ambition Shame Popularity Sense Circulation Notoriety Good Behaviour

Book:The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

Source: The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

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