Best shame & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.”

Thinking Trying Play Character Emotion Focus Shame Relate Frustration Load Soup Helplessness Unfamiliar Psycho Unfairness

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.”

Knows Trying Children Order Father Influence Sorrow Roots Shame Work Out Superiors Satan Shakes Disadvantages Having Hope Damnation Scruples

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission”

Ifs Want Trying I Can Home Body Girl Hurt Secret Struggle Share Terrible Skins Shame Sacred Sorry Oil Brilliant Lists Heal Desperate Ashamed Patriarchy Submission Depraved Being Sad

Author:Warsan Shire

“I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.”

People Thinking Trying Art Important Matter Film Suffering Heard Shame No Matter What Important Things Climate Strive Greed Corporate Keep Trying Corporate Greed

Author:Paddy Considine

“If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.”

People Ifs Trying Law Given Shame Punishment Uniformity

Book:The Chinese Classics

Source: The Chinese Classics

“Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.”

Ifs Knows Trying Might Gone Okay Shame

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“It's only through effort that we learn what an idea actually is, and if our passion for it will last or fade. There is no shame in failure - all makers fail. But it's hard to respect someone who never tries, even once, to do something good that's always on their mind. If you're worried about how good your idea is, you're worrying about the wrong thing.”

Ifs Trying Mind Ideas Hard Lasts Passion Effort Worry Failing Shame Worried Makers Fades Wrong Things Respect Someone

Author:Scott Berkun

“The desert floras shame us with their cheerful adaptations to the seasonal limitations. Their whole duty is to flower and fruit, and they do it hardly, or with tropical luxuriance, as the rain admits. ... One hopes the land may breed like qualities in her human offspring, not tritely to 'try,' but to do.”

Trying Humans May Whole Quality Land Flower Duty Rain Shame Fruit Limitation Desert Cheerful Adaptation Offspring Tropical Flora

Book:Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

Source: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders

“The best definition I've heard is that guilt is about what you've done, shame is about who you are. If something's out of my control, I don't feel shame about it, because what could I have done? If you're guilty, you can at least try to atone for it or make it better or not do it again. If it's who you are, you can't do much about it except change yourself, and that's pretty hard.”

Ifs Feels Trying Hard Done Heard Shame Who You Are Guilt Definitions Guilty Change Yourself

Author:Mary Gaitskill

“It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.”

Trying Government President Deals Effort Situation Shame Embrace Debt Spending Operations Ceilings Debt Ceiling

Author:Mitch McConnell

“I think there's a lot of shame in American race relations. There's a lot of suppressed guilt that lashes itself out still. I see that all the time, and whereas opposed to sort of trying to address the issue in an up-front way, they're attacking and thus perpetuating the problem thinking that they're being sophisticated and post-racial, when, in fact, they're being completely regressive.”

Thinking Way Trying Stills Facts Problem Race Issues Fronts Relation Shame Guilt Posts Addresses Sophisticated Attacking Race Relations Lashes Perpetuating

Author:Danny Strong

“If the people are governed by laws and punishment is used to maintain order, they will try to avoid the punishment but have no sense of shame. If they are governed by virtue and rules of propriety are used to maintain order, they will have a sense of shame and will become good as well.”

People Ifs Trying Wells Law Used Order Virtue Shame Punishment Propriety

Author:Confucius

“Chris Davis [of the Davisfunds] has a temple of shame. He celebrates the things they did that lost them a lot of money. What is also needed is a temple of shame squared for things you didn't do that would have made you rich. Forgetting your mistakes is a terrible error if you are trying to improve your cognition. Reality doesn't remind you. Why not celebrate stupidities in both categories?”

Ifs Trying Made Reality Lost Forget Mistake Rich Needed Terrible Shame Errors Stupidity Celebrate Temples Why Not Categories Lots Of Money Forget You Cognition

Author:Charlie Munger

“Since I come from a family of mental instability, and I have suffered depression myself, I knew that living in shame is senseless and painful, and that by talking about it, I have come to peace with it. The stigma behind people's suffering needs to end. We as a community need to embrace these disorders, try to understand them (if only just to talk about them) so that we can cease being defined by them.”

People Ifs Needs Trying Ends Suffering Community Behinds Talking Shame Embrace Painful Cease Defined Disorder Stigma Instability

Author:Mariel Hemingway

“I think what happens is that we're so busy as pastors that we never get around to trying to turn that material into a book. It's a shame because there is so much good material out there that needs to be published.”

Thinking Needs Trying Book Happens Turns Materials Shame Busy Pastor

Author:Max Lucado

“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

“I think challenges are what any decent writer would be all about. If you actually do find your slide and grease it, shame on you. Me, I get bored very easily. As a writer I get bored even faster than I do in real life. I mean, I like fast cars; I've driven a lot of racecars. You need some stimulation. If I find something that seems too difficult to do, too difficult to research, or beyond your writing abilities, it's a perfect invitation to try it.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mean Real Difficult Challenges Ability Perfect Car Shame Driven Real Life Bored Decent Invitations Grease Fast Car

Author:Dan Simmons

“I think that, in our culture, we find older people to be almost invisible, and it's such a shame. The one thing, the one condition that we all suffer from, and that we all benefit from, is ageing. It starts at zero and we're all going in the same direction, and I always try to see the young person underneath the older person and that's all of us. We all feel the same way inside, and I think that there are so many ways for us to age well and to help our senior population get to the golden years with more dignity more independent and more enjoyment.”

People Thinking Trying Helping Age Suffering Culture Dignity Shame Independent Invisible Enjoyment Senior

Author:Leeza Gibbons

“I'd love to make more money in America, that's the heart of it. I make much more money in Europe. It's a shame. I'm trying now to make a profit on this next tour, and I'll be much happier.”

Trying Heart Shame

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“Shamefully, Mexico isn't a country that provides opportunities equally and democratically to everyone. Although there is a myth as well about that, because if you have something to tell, you will find a way to do it. You might get frustrated doing it but hey, that's the country we live in. I want the chance to live and experience the country that I come from. I keep struggling and fighting against these very seductive offers that require that I live somewhere else. It is a shame that it has to be like that. But you are young. If you don't have a family then there's no excuse. Try, at least.”

Trying Country Fighting Opportunity Chance Struggle Shame Excuse Myth Frustrated Seductive No Excuses

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“Healthy things grow, and growing things change. If we allow fear or doubt or shame or insecurity to hold us back from something new God is calling us to do, we may miss out on his greatest purpose for our life. As believers, we go from strength to strength, from glory to glory. And in order to keep expanding God's kingdom, we have to keep growing and trying new things.”

Trying Purpose Doubt Missing Healthy Glory Shame Believer Insecurity Something New Things Change

Author:Christine Caine

“Sometimes a poem starts because I feel the urge to write about something from which I carry a great deal of shame, and I try to sketch out in writing how I am complicit in whatever dynamic it is I am illuminating. And sometimes it comes later, when I step back and challenge myself - am I being honest here?”

Writing Trying Sometimes Challenges Honest Shame Being Honest

Author:Bao Phi

“Sexuality is so much more complex than our boobs. My sexuality isn't me as an object to be looked at. It's the way I say "hello" to somebody, the way I sit with somebody. A body is just a body. But we're really afraid of bodies. They hold a lot of power - I think that's why people can try to shame them so easily, because they are so powerful.”

People Thinking Trying Powerful Shame Sexuality Hello

Author:Tatiana Maslany

“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

“I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.”

Thinking Feels Trying Has Beens Ideas Ends Hate Culture Space Sadness Taught Grew Grew Up Connections Towns Shame Aesthetic Sentimental Promoting

Author:Mike Mills

“Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.”

Feels Trying Ideas Kids Realizing Shame Majority Add Faults Disaster No Idea Reports Recipes Lack Of Education Molestation

Author:Sherri Shepherd

“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”

Feels Trying Failing Failure Shame Trying And Failing

Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

“We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.”

Trying Together House Shame Moved Ruins Ugliness

Author:Shirley Jackson

“In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.”

Ifs Knows Trying Mother Term Shame Rejects Uncertain Baggage Disapproval Codependent

Author:Susan Juby

“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”

People Thinking Love Trying Two Ends Hard Together Moving Strong Water Forever Too Much Our Lives Letting Go Rivers Shame Currents Holding On Let Me Go Together Forever Never Let Me Go

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.) (And you are deserving of shame?) (I am. I am trying to tell you.) 'We were stupid,' he said, 'because we believed in things.' 'Why is this stupid?' 'Because there are not things to believe in.' (Love?) (There is no love. Only the end of love.) (Goodness?) (Do not be a fool.) (God?) (If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)”

People Ifs Feels Trying Believe Said Ends Stupid Fool Goodness Shame Ashamed Deserving No Love Closeness God Exists Believe In Love

Book:Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”

Source: Gitanjali - Song Offerings

“He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!' 'For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.' 'No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.”

Source: Wuthering Heights

“There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.”

Knows World Way Trying Littles Said Real Seems Law Liberty Opinion Shame Slave Bounds Experiments Bitter Customs Despise Public Opinion Tempest

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.”

World Needs Trying Littles Persons Hard Felt Middle Loneliness Strange Shame Finals Tales Make Sense Logical Drifting Trying So Hard

Book:Let The Great World Spin

Source: Let The Great World Spin

“The fears that assault us are mostly simple anxieties about social skills, about intimacy, about likeableness, or about performance. We need not give emotional food or charge to these fears or become attached to them. We don’t even have to shame ourselves for having these fears. Simply ask your fears, “What are you trying to teach me?” Some say that FEAR is merely an acronym for “False Evidence Appearing Real.” From Everything Belongs, p. 143”

Needs Giving Trying Real Asks Social Simple Teach Emotional Skills Anxiety Evidence Performances Shame Intimacy Assault Appearing Social Skills Acronyms

Author:Richard Rohr

“Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him and she wanted him again. "I found them in the bed." "That makes sense," Phin said. "That's where I lost them." "I'd ask what you were doing with them," Sophie said, trying not to sound bitchy, "but I probably don't want to know, do I?" "Sure you do. It was exciting and different and depraved." Phin nodded toward the stairs. "Go put them someplace we can find them, and I'll show you later.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Looks Said Different Shows Hands Wanted Asks Found Lost Sound Higher Bed Exciting Shame Make Sense Stairs Sophie Instill Depraved Cuffs

Author:Jennifer Crusie

“If people try to judge you or shame you for doing safe, consensual things that make you happy, I can guarantee you they're bad people.”

People Ifs Trying I Can Judging Safe Shame Judgement Guarantees Make You Happy Bad People

Book:Assholes Finish First

Source: Assholes Finish First

“No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.”

Trying Looks Self Enough Turns Numbers Mistake Shame Forgiving Staring Stop Trying Forgive Yourself Racks Wrong Turn

Author:André Aciman

“Yoga is really trying to liberate us from ... shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing - I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body.”

Thinking Trying Mind Important Body Able Success Love You Depends Yoga Shame Important Things Your Body Inspirational Yoga

Author:Rodney Yee

“I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.”

Thinking Trying Shame Damn Ashamed

Author:Leighton Meester

“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”

Trying Health Fool Exercise Healthy Shame Wounds Diets Healed

Author:Horace

“I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Trying Years Real Age Today Asks Answers Clear Our Lives Tomorrow Hundred Shame

Author:Jack Antonoff

“I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.”

Knows Trying Hard Guy Three Equal Female Shame Comedian Staff Standing Out Female Comedian

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.”

Trying Country Past Form Law Force Source Civilization Equal Shame Our Country Indian Patriot Dishonor

Author:George Crook

“I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.”

Thinking Trying Energy Divine Waste Shame Being Yourself Ashamed Being Real Explaining

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“Some folks never try to grow beyond lives that have not realized that potential. And as long as they don't regret that, that's fine. Live and let live. But for those who regret never trying, it's a shame because the Web, as complex as it may seem, makes it all possible”

Trying May Long Seems Grows Courage Regret Fine Shame Complexes Folks Don't Regret Live And Let Live

Author:Ken Evoy

“Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.”

Trying Failing Pride Shame Guts Something New Founders

Author:Kevin Rose

“Don't be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone's bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don't hurt anybody, what's it matter how dopey your dream is? If I hadn't made TUSK? If I'd let it die as a podcast? I wouldn't have three other movies I'm now making within the span of a year. Some folks will try to shame you for trying something outside the norm; the only shame is in not trying to accomplish your dreams.”

Ifs Trying Years Long Made Matter Dream Dies Three Stuff Hurt Stupid Shame Folks Accomplish Your Dreams Norm Weird Stuff Trying Something

Author:Kevin Smith

“I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.”

People Love Trying Age Young Used Girl Shame Teenager Young Women Pursued

Author:Martha Wainwright

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