Best shame & shameful Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?”

Long Faces Passion Lord Shame Confusion Covered Woe Alas Shameful Hurtful Loathe Disgraceful Indignant

Book:The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes

Source: The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes

“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

“It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation, that it forgets the most shameful happenings in the daily shame of events, and that it can hardly understand when individuals aim to destroy this infamy.”

Humanity Individual Forget Situation Events Happenings Shame Aim Horrible Curse Tolerate Shameful Infamy

Author:Rudolf Virchow

“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.”

“As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is what it is - you know, your father's violent but he loves you and that's just the way it is - later on you realize that this is like different, shameful, blah blah blah.”

Knows Way Children Different Father Realizing Love You Adults Shame Violent Shameful Blah

Author:Justin Torres

“Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one's relationship with the spirit of nature. To be naked is to be open-hearted. Normally kids stay naked until puberty and even beyond. It was only with the introduction of cheap cloth from the West, through Goodwill and other Christian organisations, that nakedness began to be associated with shame.”

Kids Christian Spirit Common Expression Shame West Naked Tribes Introduction Hearted Shameful Goodwill Organisation Puberty

Book:Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

Source: Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

“Shame cannot exist in conditions of light, sunshine, and humor. So the very moment that you share your most shameful moments - and can learn to laugh about them - then the spell is lifted. And you, too, are free.”

Moments Light Laughing Share Conditions Shame Sunshine Spells Shameful

Author:Christiane Northrup

“There were more people against going into Iraq than there were going into the Falklands... but the shame I carry as a British resident, was that it was a war handled in the media as if it were a World Cup summer. Like when England go into the World Cup, there are Union Jacks on the papers, and you can look at headlines from the time and it sounded just like that. Ultimately, I was privy to footage from ITN archives - that wasn't shown on television - of the people we were fighting, and it was shameful. It was bullying. It was really horrible. How could we have been proud of winning that?”

People World War Fighting Winning Proud Summer Shame Horrible Bullying Shameful

Author:Shane Meadows

“We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.”

Shame Guilt Guilty Shameful

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“There's no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating.”

Doe Losing Shame Fundamentals Investing Shameful Deteriorating Losing Money

Book:Beating the Street

Source: Beating the Street

“No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.”

Ifs Persons Found Names Drink Hundred Regard Shame Beer Shock Sane Vulgar Scorn Shameful Refinement Humiliating Snob Cider Claret

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.”

Ifs Country Objects Birth Members Creating Destruction Shame Symbols Agents Glorious Honored Shameful Procreation Creating Life

Author:Cyrano de Bergerac

“The only reason that some people aren’t ashamed of their parents and/or siblings is because they know that we know that they did not choose them.”

“It's shameful for a devil to be good.”

Honest Honesty Devil Shame Good Good And Evil Quotes About Life Aphorisms Shameful Stereotypes Devil Quotes Stereotyping Devil Worship Irony Of Evolution Sarcasam

Book:The New Land

Source: The New Land

“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”

“O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us... The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?" -Salvian”

Source: Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

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