Home / Topics / Shame Quotes

Shame Quotes

Browse 2566 quotes about Shame.

Shame Quotes

“Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.”

Source: Life After God

“In journalism, there are only two stories - "Oh, the wonder of it," and "Oh, the shame of it."”

Two Stories Wonder Shame Journalism

Author:Robert Reich

“Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.”

People Evil Compassion Wonder Kindness Lovers Goodness Shame Conquer Gentle Evil People Zealous Legality

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.”

“Do the Pentecostals look back with shame as they remember when they dwelt across the theological tracks, but with the glory of the Lord in their midst? When they had a normal church life, which meant nights of prayers, followed by signs and wonders, and diverse miracles, and genuine gifts of the Holy Ghost? When they were not clock watchers, and their meetings lasted for hours, saturated with holy power? Have we no tears for these memories, or shame that our children know nothing of such power?”

“From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.”

Thinking Enough Ability Acting Wonder Magic Movement Shame Tricks Factors Rely Get Away Magician Lighting

Author:David Copperfield

“How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?”

Long Wonder Ignorance Shame Purity Spells

Book:The ballad and the source

Source: The ballad and the source

“We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.”

Men Has Beens Facts Certain Fall Next Left Hours Sin Wonder Virtue Influence Honor Men And Women Shame Temptation Height Shock Exposed

Author:J. G. Holland

“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

“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”

Men Evil Literature Wonder Shame Guilt Wicked Ashamed Nonviolent Communication Shame And Guilt

Book:The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author

Source: The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author

“Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves at night when they are climbing into bed with intimate partners. Are they overwhelmed with secret shame that someone sees them as they really are? Or do they sleep with rage that who they really are can be celebrated or cared for only in secret?”

Thinking Knows Feels Night Sleep Secret Wonder Bed Shame Rage Partners Intimate Makeup Climbing Overwhelmed Without Makeup

Author:Bell Hooks

“Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm shrinking smaller and smaller and I can't stp it. There's just os much wrong that I can't imagine the shame in admitting even the tiniest part of it. When you left it was like there was this huge gap to fill, but instead of spreading wide enough to do it I just fell right in, and I'm still falling. Like I'm half-asleep, and I can't wake up, can't wake up.”

Ifs Way Feels Years Wells Stills I Can Enough Fall Left Half Wonder Imagine Huge Happenings Wake Up Shame Wide Gaps New Year Admitting Shrinking

Author:Sarah Dessen

“I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.”

My Own Wonder Behavior Shame Determine I Realized Queens Treatment Motivated Civility Unprecedented

Author:Catherine Gilbert Murdock