Quotes About Shame

Prose divides shame into stations.

Some porn users tell us they feel too ashamed to go to church or express their spirituality in the ways that were once meaningful to them.

This book provides pornography with an ideology. It gives back to women what anti-porn feminism has taken away: the right to pursue their own sexuality without shame or apology, without guilt or censure.

All this because one race did not have the decency to be ashamed of dealing in human flesh.

They lived in a world where mental illness was equated with weakness, and shame, and as a result, I suffered until I was in my thirties.*

I have no idea what depression even was until I was in my twenties, once I was pretty sure that I had it, I suffered with it for another fifteen years, because I was ashamed, I was embarrassed, and I was afraid.

Oh, 'tis a terrible thing in early youth To be assailed by laughter and mute shame, A terrible thing to be befooled forsooth By one's own foolish face betrayed in flame.

Wie wunderbar ist es, dass kein Mensch seine Schuld öffentlich zeigen muss. Wie entsetzlich ist es, dass jeder Mensch seine Schuld in seinem Inneren jeden Tag anschauen muss.

Düzen"in ç?karlar? u?rana öldürmeyi sürdürüyorsun; ama korkakça, sinsi sinsi öldürüyorsun. Beni herkesin önünde ahlâks?zl?kla suçlarken do?rudan gözlerimin içine bakamazs?n. Çünkü hangimizin daha ahlâks?z, hangimizin ?ehvet dü?künü, hangimizin aç?k saç?k yay?nlar?n hayran? oldu?unu çok iyi biliyorsun.

Vergogna a coloro che fanno dei giovani più abbandonati un oggetto fantasmatico di terrore nazionale! Costoro sono la feccia di una società senza onore che ha perduto finanche il sentimento della paternità.

Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of—until you find out you've got it. Once you realize you're ignorant, if you don't do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.

But would it be too much to ask for them to stop hating us? Why is anti-Semitism on the rise again in Europe? Why is it not safe to be a Jew in this country? Why has the shame of the Holocaust worn off? Why won't it ever end?

I'm afraid life doesn't work that way, Eli." "I suppose not. But would it be too much to ask for them to stop hating us? Why is anti-Semitism on the rise again in Europe? Why is it not safe to be a Jew in this country? Why has the shame of the Holocaust worn off? Why won't it ever end?

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession

Thank you," I said to my lap, unable to stop the knee-jerk reaction to Mom's invective. She taught me this. How to be kind, passive. He used that kindness to hurt me, to shame me into silence.

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.

Les blessures dont on a honte ne se guérissent pas.

On se sert même du cynisme pour ne pas crever de honte.

The wounds we are ashamed of never heal.

For I fully expect and hope that I will never be ashamed, but that I will continue to be bold for Christ, as I have been in the past. And I trust that my life will bring honor to Christ, whether I live or die. Philippians 1:20, NLT

Faultfinding is of little use and scant profit, for it is the mark of a shameless mind to prefer the role of the censorious critic to that of the creative poet. —FROM COPERNICUS'S Letter Against Werner, JUNE 3, 1524

We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.

There is no shame in failure. For a warrior the only shame is in not trying.)