Quotes About Shame

Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

I believe, Eragon, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. No shame exists in that.

Adam and Eve don't seem very conscious, at the beginning, when they are first placed in Paradise, and they were certainly not self-conscious. As the story insists, the original parents were naked, but not ashamed.

Those who have lied enough, in word and action, live there, in hell—now. Take a walk down any busy urban street. Keep your eyes open and pay attention. You will see people who are there, now. These are the people to whom you instinctively give a wide berth. These are the people who are immediately angered if you direct your gaze toward them, although sometimes they will instead turn away in shame.

What are we to do about that? Abandon all ideals of beauty, health, brilliance and strength? That's not a good solution. That would merely ensure that we would feel ashamed, all the time—and that we would even more justly deserve it. I don't want women who can stun by their mere presence to disappear just so that others can feel unselfconscious.

is the case that forced redistribution, in the name of utopian equality, is a cure to shame the disease.

It is difficult to conclude anything from this set of facts except that people appear to love their dogs, cats, ferrets and birds (and maybe even their lizards) more than themselves. How horrible is that? How much shame must exist, for something like that to be true? What could it be about people that makes them prefer their pets to themselves?

Beauty shames the ugly. Strength shames the weak. Death shames the living—and the Ideal shames us all.

the Ideal shames us all. Thus we fear it, resent it--even hate it[...]What are we to do about that? Abandon all ideals of beauty, health, brilliance and strength? That's not a good solution.

Así, las emociones negativas, por desagradables que resulten, nos protegen. Sentimos dolor, miedo, vergüenza y asco, y así evitamos sufrir daños. Y se trata de sentimientos que solemos sentir a menudo. De hecho, sentimos más emoción negativa ante una pérdida de un valor determinado que la positiva que experimentamos si conseguimos algo de ese mismo valor. El dolor es más contundente que el placer y la ansiedad, más que la esperanza.

But the capacity of women to shame men and render them self-conscious is still a primal force of nature.

Starker [Leopold] had an adage for people in public service: 'If you're ashamed of it, don't do it. If you're not, publicize it.' " -David Graber, wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park

El que se avergüenza de los sentimientos está perdido. No va a encontrarse nunca.

Vinham confessar o irremediável; ele tinha lhe tirado os tampos, comido o cabaço, necessitavam casar. Quisesse ou não dona Rozilda, com ou sem maioridade, tinham de casar, Flor deixara de ser moça donzela e só o matrimônio lhe restituiria a honra agora no bucho de Vadinho.

Dona Flor ia perdendo a timidez, entregando-se àquela festa lasciva, crescendo em violência, tornando-se amante animosa e audaz. Nunca, porém, abandonou por completo a pudicícia e a vergonha; era necessário reconquistá-la cada vez, pois, apenas desperta dessas loucas audácias e dos ais de desmaio, voltava a ser tímida e pudorosa esposa.

Kapag may mga uban na po akong tulad ng sa inyo at ginugunita ang nakaraan at makita kong gumawa ako alang-alang sa sarili lamang, hindi ginhawa ang magagawa't nararapat gawin ukol sa bayang nagbigay sa akin ng lahat, ukol sa mga mamamayang tumutulong sa aking mabuhay, kapag nagkagayon po, magiging tinik sa akin ang bawat uban, at sa halip na ikaliwalhati ko'y dapat kong ikahiya.

Where are the youth who will consecrate their golden hours, their illusions, and their enthusiasm to the welfare of their native land? Where are the youth who will generously pour out their blood to wash away so much shame, so much crime, so much abomination?

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you'd not done!

My darter ha' ate five, five pies to-day. My darter ha' ate five, five pies to-day." The king was coming down the street, and he heard her sing, but what she sang he couldn't hear, so he stopped and said: "What was that you were singing, my good woman?" The woman was ashamed to let him hear what her daughter had been doing, so she sang, instead of that: "My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day.

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

the general ignominy that is the corollary of insight, i.e., the ignominy of having thus far lived in error, of having failed, until the moment of so-called insight, to understand what could have been understood earlier, an ignominy only deepened by prospective shame, because the moment of insight serves as a reminder that more such moments lie ahead, and that one always goes forward in error.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.