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Quotes About Shame

Into the woods my Master went,Clean forspent, forspent.Into the woods my Master came,Forspent with love and shame.
~ Sidney Lanier
I'm telling you this so that if you ever are in the position of carrying a secret about something that you have done that makes you ashamed you will make the choice to confront yourself. It will take guts to admit that you have behaved in a way that prevents you from being your better self, and then choose to act differently. It
~ Sidney Poitier
Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart.
~ Simon Wood
Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em. Having a face Adonis would admire is one of the few advantages I've been given in life, and I use it to it's full potential whether it's for good or evil.
~ Simone Elkeles
I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof. 'Tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures, that in a moment can so disfigure us, that our nearest friends, wife, and children, stand afraid and start at us.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for he is willing to succumb.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Find you, love you, marry you, and live without shame.
~ Ian Mcewan
Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.
~ John Dryden
I'd love to be in another film, but they haven't asked me. I think it's a shame but the prospects of me doing another one now are remote. Please do campaign on my behalf.
~ Julie Walters
I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.
~ Anita Baker
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.
~ Rumi
The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.
~ Margaret Atwood
Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.
~ Stephen Fry
What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
~ Jane Austen
In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.
~ Virgil
There is a huge amount of shame connected to the feeling of not being loved, because love and family, biological or not, confirms our existence. Everyone needs to be seen, accepted and loved.
~ Anne Sewitsky
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
~ Brene Brown
Why should the disseizin of his soul have seemed shameful to him? He had had no soul till it passed out of his keeping.
~ Max Beerbohm
His very mantle was aspersed. In another minute he would stand sodden, inglorious, a mock.
~ Max Beerbohm
Shame's a powerful weapon, but it depended on everyone else doing the right thing.
~ Max Brooks
We were taught since birth to bear the burden of our grandfathers' shame. We were taught that, even if we wore a uniform, that our first sworn duty was to our conscience, no matter what the consequences
~ Max Brooks
If pride is what goes before a fall, the shame is what keeps you from getting up after one.
~ Max Lucado
Shame is a child of self-centeredness. Heaven's occupants are not self-centered, they are Christ-centered. You will be in your sinless state. The sinless don't protect a reputation or project an image. You won't be ashamed. You'll be happy to let God do in heaven what he did on earth—be honored in your weaknesses. Heads bowed in shame? No. Heads bowed in worship? No doubt.
~ Max Lucado
38For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.
~ Max Lucado