Quotes About Shame

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

He that is ashamed to speak the truth has need to be ashamed of himself.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.

It's a simple truth that a secret is something you're ashamed of.

Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.

It took place to the accompaniment of such hideous swearing as caused his withered leg to blush beneath the sacking. It must have been hardened by many years of oaths, but this morning an awakened sense of shame at what the upper part of the body could descend to, raddled it from hip to toe. Its only consolation was that the contaminating influence had not descended lower than the lungs, and what diseases the withered leg experienced were entirely physical.

The violent tension between honor and shame, so central to Middle Eastern cultures and tragically familiar to Israel, was alien to most Americans.

I don't look stoned?" My heart began to pound. The classic aim of a pothead is always to look perfectly straight—and if possible operate complicated machinery—while immense shrieking nebulae are coming asunder in his brain. To fail at this—to be found out—carries a mysterious burden of anxiety and shame. "How are my eyes?

Sammy started to pull the covers up over him. Then he stopped and just stood there looking at Tommy, loving him, and feeling the usual spasm of shame that it should be while he was watching the boy sleep that he felt most like a father, or rather, the happiest to be one.

All these years in the straight life and she still had a whore's pride.

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I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive.

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know.

The Yankees understood what New York understood, that there was no shame in buying success, and maybe because of their lack of shame they did what they did better than anyone in the business.

Alcoholism is a disease," she said. "Like athlete's foot. Or herpes. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Luker and I have lots of friends who are alcoholics. And speed freaks too." "Well

And among adults, adultery is an unmentionable thing, which only occurs in the Bible and in Mobile.

Wenn wir jung sind, ist uns nicht so sehr die Realität unserer Lage peinlich, sondern wir fürchten uns davor, dass andere sie erkennen und darüber urteilen könnten.

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.