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Quotes About Shame

New Rule: The person who sat in my seat on the flight before me and could not finish the People magazine crossword puzzle has to be ashamed of themselves. I don't know who you are, but Desperate _____wives? Nothing? A three-letter word for Writing utensil, you're holding it in your hand. Here's one more for you: Four letters, begins with a v , something you shouldn't be allowed to do this November.
~ Bill Maher
Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.
~ Bill Willingham
My childhood ended around the time of my ninth birthday, shamed into sex, obedience and fear.
~ Billy Childish
My faith feels tattered and threadbare and I am ashamed. What good is it if it does not see me through pain? But a scrap of faith is better than nothing, so I cling to it tightly.
~ Bo Caldwell
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.
~ Bob Dylan
Children are unconstrainedly sincere and not ashamed of the truth, while we, from fear of seeming backward, are ready to betray what's most dear, to praise the repulsive, and to say yes to the incomprehensible.
~ Boris Pasternak
Dios os contempla, mierdosos, y se avergüenza de vosotros...
~ Boris Vian
On me donne de l'or. Beaucoup d'or. Mais je n'ai pas le droit de le dépenser. Personne ne veut rien me vendre. J'ai une maison et beaucoup d'or, mais je dois digérer la honte de tout le village. Ils me paient pour que j'aie des remords à leur place. De tout ce qu'ils font de mal ou d'impie. De tous leurs vices. De leurs crimes. De la foire aux vieux. Des bêtes torturées. Des apprentis. Et des ordures.
~ Boris Vian
U ovu vodu bacaju ono što je mrtvo da bih ga ja izvadio. I to zubima. Za to sam pla?en. Daju mi ?amac, a pla?aju mi sramotom i zlatom. Daju mi da jedem. Daju mi zlata. Mnogo zlata. Ali nemam prava da ga trošim. Niko ništa ne?e da mi proda. Imam ku?u i mnogo zlata, ali moram da gutam sramotu celog sela. Pla?aju me da bi me umesto njih grizla savest.
~ Boris Vijan
Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
Don;t blush, for God's sake. You and your blushing - you're like some Victorian maiden.
~ Sylvia Brownrigg
And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured Of a craving for something I cannot find And of the shame of never finding it.
~ T.S. Eliot
Survival is your strength not your shame.
~ T.S. Eliot
And last, the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been; the shame Of things ill done and done to others' harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue. Then fools' approval stings, and honour stains.
~ T.S. Eliot
You dog!" she said, so loud that half the crowded tavern turned to watch. "A few days past the walls of the inner keep and you think your pizzle has turned to solid silver? At least when Nevin Hewney falls asleep on top of a girl, drooling and farting and limp as custard, he doesn't pretend he's done her a favor.
~ Tad Williams
I pray that I lose my voice before my tongue ever shames me.
~ Tad Williams
I loved him, just for a minute. I loved him and I grieved for him and my pity was part of the beauty, before the shame began.
~ Tanith Lee
Behind his eyes, sluggish currents of self-dislike, guilt, and shame stirred cloudily.
~ Tanith Lee
Dear me," Romulan said, "worst of all my execrable failings, to bring you, sir, to such a display.
~ Tanith Lee
It would seem it was one thing to be murdered, another to be humiliated.
~ Tanith Lee
I never doubted my standing in the next life, but I often felt shame in this life, constantly disappointing God in my failure to love as He asked me to love. As such, I was caught in a kind of stupor of unworthiness.
~ Ted Dekker
And at that very moment, the smile arrived And the crowd, shoving to get a glimpse of a man's soul Stripped to its last shame, Met this smile That rose through his torn roots Touching his lips, altering his eyes And for a moment Mending everything Before it swept out and away across the earth.
~ Ted Hughes
Most sensitive boys tend to pause to reflect before acting and would not be considered risk-takers. This tendency can easily be understood as demonstrating a healthy caution. However, in most societies boys are frequently encouraged to engage in risky behavior and are praised when they do so, while more cautious behavior is regarded with shame.
~ Ted Zeff
In other words, sexualization is a more general tactic to delegitimize and dehumanize people. This helps to explain why there is often so much shame, reluctance, and secrecy surrounding discussions of sexuality, as even broaching the subject can lead a person to become stigmatized.
~ Julia Serano